DPP holds press conference ahead of 10th anniversary of Sunflower Student Movement
DPP holds press conference ahead of 10th anniversary of Sunflower Student Movement
2024-03-15
The 10th anniversary of the Sunflower Student Movement is coming up on March 18. On Friday, the DPP held a press event featuring some of the participants who took part in the Anti-China protests back in the day. One scholar says that, had the movement failed to stop a cross-strait service trade agreement, Taiwan’s economy would now be stagnating like Hong Kong’s. Meanwhile, a lawmaker criticized some of the movement’s leaders for having switched sides to the KMT.
On March 18, 2014, student protesters occupied the Legislative Yuan to protest the proposed Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement. Now, 10 years on, the movement’s participants say they are glad Taiwan took the right path.
Frida Tsai
National Chi Nan University professor
The issue of restarting the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement is not just a political matter, but something that will affect all of our livelihoods. Hong Kong’s economic integration with China has led to Hong Kong’s decline. We should ask ourselves, do we want things to be that way here?
Frida Tsai drew a comparison between Hong Kong and Taiwan. In 2015, the city signed a services trade agreement with China. In the decade since, Taiwan’s GDP has grown at an average of 3.0%, while Hong Kong’s has lagged at 1.0%. Taiwan has also posted better figures than Hong Kong for direct foreign investment and service trade income.
Wang Guo-chen
Chung-hua Institution for Economic Research
Last month, Hong Kong’s and China’s stock markets made huge losses, whereas other markets rallied.
Jiho Chang
Keelung councilor (DPP)
The Sunflower Student Movement was the first time that the people of Taiwan were able to engage in debate at the very front lines. It proved to us that, no matter what, the people will take back the power of anyone who dares try to sell out Taiwan.
Meanwhile lawmaker Wu Pei-yi says she can’t bear to see some of her former protest comrades now supporting the KMT in the Legislature as the party calls for restarting talks on this agreement.
Wu Pei-yi
DPP lawmaker
It’s especially the case in the Internal Administration Committee. We’ve seen the KMT make all sorts of ridiculous speeches parroting Chinese rhetoric. Some of our partners in the student movement, such as movement leader Huang Kuo-chang, have chosen to back the KMT in the Legislative Yuan multiple times. To me, it’s a betrayal of the ideals of the movement.
A decade on from the movement, Taiwan still remains at a critical juncture.
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318學運十週年 學者:若簽服貿恐變下一個香港
2024-03-15
下週一318太陽花學運即將屆滿十週年，民進黨中央早上召開318回顧記者會，多位當時參與的成員出席，強調走對的路，學者以經濟數據分析，如果當年簽下服貿恐怕走上香港的路，經濟衰退。吳沛憶也批評當時的學運領袖黃國昌，和親中的國民黨站在一起，背叛學運精神。
2014年318學運，年輕人佔領國會議場，擋下兩岸服貿協議，如今學運將屆滿十週年，當年參與的成員，如今想來，慶幸走了對的路。
[[暨南國際大學教授 蔡培慧]]
“重啟服貿不是政治的事，重啟服貿是影響你我生計的事，香港跟中國的經濟一體化，形成了香港的衰敗，我們問我們自己我們要變這樣嗎?”
香港就是台灣最佳對照組，2015年香港與中國簽訂服貿協議，但這十年來，台灣經濟成長率平均3.0，香港平均1.0；外國直接投資和服貿收入，台灣數字都比香港亮眼許多。
[[中經院助研究員 王國臣]]
“直到上個月，香港跟中國的股市大跌，其他都是大漲”
[[基隆市議員(民) 張之豪]]
“318運動是台灣人民第一次可以親自地參與到台灣對於路線爭辯，318運動向我們證明了，如果有人膽敢出賣台灣，在任何的狀態之下，我們人民也會把這個權力奪回來”
不過吳沛憶看到當時的學運夥伴，成為立法院同事，卻是和力挺服貿的國民黨站在一起，百感交集。
[[立委(民) 吳沛憶]]
“尤其在立法院裡面的內政委員會，我們看到國民黨各式荒腔走板，跟中國唱和的發言，但是我們當年運動的夥伴，當時的學運領袖黃國昌老師，在立法院裡面卻選擇多次和國民黨站在一起，對我來說這是對運動精神的一種背叛”
台灣要選擇怎樣的道路，人民依然站在關鍵的十字路口。
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