sunflower movement. triggered in 2014, when student protesters occupied taiwan's national legislature for three weeks, fightingroposed free trade agreement with china. named after the floral gift sent to protesters as a symbol of hope, the movement gained widespread public sympathy in taiwan. and the students were successful in preventing the agreement. but instead of retreating back into silence, the group and its values remained a prominent force in local politics. after the protests, many of taiwan's activists shifted their attention to institutional forms of politics, joining existing political parties or establishing new ones and taking up governmental positions. as a protestor or as a social activist, i only have to spend time with those people who have the same ideology as me, but as a politician i have to spend more time with those people who don't have the same ideology. i have to persuade them, communicate with them, and explain what is the common interest between us. today is the pride parade, the oldest and the biggest in asia. i join it every year. yeah, of course. this year's pride parade had ove