Useful and Enjoyable:
- Useful: Student Leaders Reddit Chat discussion link
- Useful: Livestream from inside the Legislature
- Useful: English Liveblog from the inside (note new link at top)
- Useful: English explanation by NTU econ prof about why the pact is so awful
- Useful: Ketagalan Media The Debrief with much analysis and reportage
- Useful: Taiwan Voice with translations and interviews (Facebook)
- Useful: Video of speech at U of Michigan rally; links to other rallies on sidebar (Youtube)
- Enjoyable: Drone cam video of the 3/30 protest (video)
- Enjoyable: Look at striking beauty of protest (Huffpost)
Good analysis and reporting:
- Joel Atkinson with a good review of the protests (World Politics Review)
- Nathan Batto on Protest and State power (Frozen Garlic)
- J Michael Cole: Taiwan students occupy legislature over trade pact (The Diplomat)
- J Michael Cole: Riot police attack protesters (The Diplomat)
- J Michael Cole: Debunking the myths about the student movement (Far Eastern Sweet Potato)
- J Michael Cole: Gangsters just passing through (Far Eastern Sweet Potato)
- J Michael Cole: Say good-bye to peaceful unification (Far Eastern Sweet Potato)
- J Michael Cole: Hundreds of thousands protest against trade pact (The Diplomat)
- J Michael Cole: End of an era in cross-strait relations (Jamestown Brief)
- Stephane Corcuff argues that gov't should negotiate, or face revolutionaries (Far Eastern Sweet Potato)
- Jason Cox rips the Ma Administration (A-gu)
- Dafydd Fell compares student movement to red shirt protest (China Policy Institute)
- Jo Ann Fan explains why the economics of the services pact don't work (The Diplomat)
- Kerim Friedman (anthropologist) on Sunflowers, Sunlight, and Sovereignty (Keywords)
- Kerim Friedman (anthropologist) on the student movement (Savage Minds)
- Ben Goren: The hidden agenda of Ma's trade policy (China Policy Institute)
- Ben Goren explains why the trade pact will be bad for Taiwan business (Letters from Taiwan).
- Ben Goren on the aftermath, Wang, Jiang, and Ma (Letters from Taiwan)
- Ben Goren on the latest TVBS poll (Letters from Taiwan)
- Mark Harrison, longtime scholar, reviews the Sunflower Movement (The China Story)
- Eric Hundman with a strong analysis of the protests (Duck of Minerva)
- Hsiao Hung-pai: Taiwan's protesters are fighting for the very democracy of Taiwan (Guardian)
- Jang Show-ling (NTU Pub Econ Dept Chair) on why the pact sucks (Taipei Times)
- Yi-tze Lee: Sunflowers Uniting Taiwan (Online Citizen)
- TC Lin visits the protests (Poagao)
- Eric Maderlin: Why the American Media Blackout on the Taiwan protests? (DailyKos)
- Jeff Martin (anthropologist): Policing an occupied legislature (Anthropolitiea)
- William Pesek: Is China Losing Taiwan (Bloomberg)
- William Pesek: Taiwan gets little from cozying up to China (Bloomberg)
- Ian Rowen (scholar actually in LY) describes Inside the Sunflower Movement (Occupy)
- Michal Thim: Protests won't undermine Taiwan's trade ties (The Diplomat)
- Michael Thim: China undermines Taiwan's reputation (The Diplomat)
- John Tkacik explains how the trade pact will be bad for Taiwan (Washington Times)
- John Tkacik on why the protesters stuck it out (Chinafile)
- Steve Tsang, head of China Policy Institute, calls for Ma to meet with the students (China Policy Institute)
- Wen Chi-yu on Ma's communications problem (CFR)
- BBC: Students are suspicious of both parties
- Community of Democracies Statement on the students
- Duke East Asia Nexus: Interview with two Taiwan journalists
- Global Voices: Aborigines oppose the pact
- Reddit: Inside Jokes of the Sunflower Movement
- Liberty Times: academic explains why occupation occurred.
- Taipei Times: The students are a new generation activists
- Taipei Times: trade pact will lead to local banks relying on Chinese funding
- Taipei Times: Businessweek poll majority oppose pact
- Open Letter to the Sunflower Movement (KRW#3)
- Me: What will Chinese investment really be and other links (The View from Taiwan)
- Me: Discourse and ideology in the media (The View from Taiwan)
- Me: How many at the protest? Thank god we had the corporate media to tell us (The View from Taiwan)
Corporate Establishment/Pro-KMT
- In Which Dave Brown of AIT, who can't even get the date right never mind the interpretations, nevertheless sallies forth to do battle with the evil pro-democracy side. It's just a flesh wound! he cries.
- In Which longtime pro-KMT academic John Copper collects a bunch of conspiracy theories and then says the truth is a mix of them, much as if he claimed Kennedy had been assassinated by the mafia under orders from space aliens.
- In Which Bonnie Glaser of CSIS informs us that the trade pact is really really good (video).
- In Which CTI TV hosts uses imagery from the students to suggest they are all having sex and himself basically says he wants to have his way with one of the pretty girls. You may have to shower after this one, it's just plain sick (video).
- In Which a WantWant writer argues that the student leaders aren't messiahs, they're just naughty boys
- In Which Banyan at the Economist simply conceals Ma's real positions
- In Which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs defends the trade pact.
- In Which Buddhist monk and former KMT Central Standing Committee member Hsing Yun attacks the Sunflower movement for being an internal split and full of hate.
- In Which Shelly Rigger gives an interview for Dissent Quarterly and simply forwards KMT talking points
- In Which longtime Congressional staffer Dennis Halpin comes out with a full court pro-KMT press.
Not very useful or insightful, because I've discussed them
- Peter Lee makes errors and misinterprets in attempting to explain what is going on in Taiwan (Counterpunch)
- Peter Lee reproduces right-wing Chinese nationalist tropes and writes an apologetic for the deployment of pro-China gangsters in Taiwan (Counterpunch)
- Jonathon Spangler incorrectly argues that no one will do business with Taiwan if the trade pact falls through (The Diplomat).
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