March 23^rd will mark the seventh anniversary of the short-lived occupation of the Executive Yuan by students involved in the Sunflower Movement of 2014. The Sunflower Movement began when students and activists occupied the Legislative Yuan on March 18, 2014 in an effort to block the passage of a trade pact between Taiwan and China. At a press conference on March 23, then President Ma Ying-jeou stated his resolve in passing the trade pact.

This led to the students attempt to occupy the Executive Yuan. Five days afterward, on March 28, 2014, I spoke to Eric Chang also known as Ahbying, who was there that night about what he saw firsthand and experienced that night.

Here’s a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:

• His candid conversation with a cop at the Executive Yuan before the scene turned violent
• His firsthand account of what he saw and experienced the night that students tried to occupy the Executive Yuan
• How he reacted when the police hit him
• The media’s coverage of what happened on March 23^rdat the Executive Yuan
• His thoughts of the occupation of the Legislative Yuan and Sunflower Movement

Related Links:

Eric’s Ahbying YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ahbying

Sunflower Movement: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower_Student_Movement

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In 2015, I spoke with Gordon Chang, author and political commentator about his views on China and his books, The Coming Collapse of China, and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World. I recently invited him back on Talking Taiwan, to listen to that episode, check out episode 85.

Here’s a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:

• How Gordon went from practicing law to writing The Coming Collapse of China and becoming a political commentator who focuses on news about China
• How Gordon’s views of China changed after he worked and lived there from 1996-2001
• How the Chinese Communist Party is going in the wrong direction
• What kind of reactions Gordon’s book, The Coming Collapse of China received
• What’s going to happen if China does collapse?
• China’s predatory trade policies
• How China’s ban of certain websites and social media platforms delegitimizes the Chinese Communist Party
• Gordon’s impressions of Taiwan
• How Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement was inspired by Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement
• Dissent in Hong Kong, Tibet and the Uighurs in Xinjiang
• Gordon’s book Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World
• How Gordon believes that the U.S. should be calling out China on North Korea
• Gordon’s thoughts on the premise of the film The Interview and the cyber hacks on Sony
• If Gordon has another book in the works

We recently invited Gordon back to Talking Taiwan to talk about the Hong Kong Security Law in Episode 85.

Related Links:

Gordon Chang on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gordongchang

Gordon Chang’s website: www.gordonchang.com

Gordon’s book Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400062942/qid=1134270260/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-9747648-7111228?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

Gordon’s book, The Coming Collapse of China: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/037550477X/qid=1134270217/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14/002-9747648-7111228?n=507846&s=books&v=glance

Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement: https://qz.com/1714897/what-was-hong-kongs-umbrella-movement-about/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_Movement

Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-asian-studies/article/inside-taiwans-sunflower-movement-twentyfour-days-in-a-studentoccupied-parliament-and-the-future-of-the-region/DB4A7B57538A6F06DC6C8CF0058C8040

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower_Student_Movement

The Interview: https://www.netflix.com/title/70305895

https://www.cnn.com/2014/12/27/world/asia/north-korea-the-interview-reaction/index.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/08/-sp-north-koreans-review-the-interview

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As protests and civil unrest arise across the U.S., and tension has mounted, Talking Taiwan’s host Felicia Lin was reminded of a time in which she found herself in the midst of intense protests in 2014,  in Taipei, Taiwan, after the occupation of the Legislative Yuan in what has become known as the Sunflower Movement.

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Here is an interview with Tony Chang on the Sunflower Movement.

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Here is an interview with Tony Chang on the Taiwan Independence Citizens Revolution.

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Here is an interview with Tony Chang on the Taiwan Independence Citizens Revolution.

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