Huang Yu-fen & Wei Yang of the Sunflower Movement
Huang Yu-fen & Wei Yang of the Sunflower Movement

Taiwan's Student Sunflower Movement: Interview with Two of its Leaders

Apr 23, 2014

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In an unprecedented event this Spring, the Sunflower Student Movement occupied Taiwan's Legislative Yuan for over three weeks. The students finally withdrew after the government promised to postpone ratifying the trade agreement with China which originally sparked the protest. Two of its leaders discuss the Movement and Taiwan's future.

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