additional safeguards to let the people, not any political party, decide the fate of Taiwan. Polish media group Niezalezna – which owns several print and online news outlets in Poland, including the daily Gazeta Polska Codziennie, the weekly Gazeta Polska and the monthly Nowe Panstwo — received a letter from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Bureau in Poland, protesting its use of an analogy between the occupation of the Executive Yuan compound by protesters and the consequent violent crackdown by police and the occupation of the central square, Maidan, in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, by protesters who were also treated brutally by the police. Hanna Shen, the journalist who wrote the story and other reports about the movement, expressed shock about receiving the letter: My newspaper has been publishing articles very critical of the governments of Russia, China and the former Ukrainian government, but we never received any letter from the representative offices of those countries asking us to retract anything. I personally think this letter, as an attempt to influence, to control the way media in free and democratic Poland writes about Taiwan, is not acceptable. [M]any media outlets around the world – including in Germany and in the US – have also made the same analogy in their reports. Tang Prize recipient Yu Ying-shih expressed support for the movement in a speech on September 20, 2014. He lauded the students' intentions and further commented that all citizens of a democracy should make their concerns known and vote. Gallery See also Cross-Strait relations Wild Lily student movement Wild Strawberries Movement May 1968 events in France, Paris, France Referendums in Taiwan February 28 Incident 2020 Thai protests List of protests in the 21st century References Further reading Gold, Thomas B. "Occupy Central/Sunflower: Popular Resistance in Greater China." Foreign Policy Research Institute (October 2014) Online Ho, Ming-sho. Challenging Beijing's Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement (Temple University Press, 2019). External links Sunflower Movement in English on Facebook Democracy at 4am Organizer Page Sunflower Student Movement/Flickr Photos Was Taiwan's Sunflower Movement Successful? – The Diplomat Taiwan's 'Third Force' Makes Its Presence Known in Legislature – The Diplomat One year on: impact of 'sunflower' movement protests in Taiwan continues to blossom – South China Morning Post Student protests in Taiwan Civil disobedience Nonviolent occupation Nonviolent resistance movements Politics of Taiwan Cross-Strait relations Progressivism in Taiwan 2014 in Taiwan