Huang and Lin were acquitted of incitement charges. The Taiwan High Court upheld the lower court's decision in March 2018. In April 2020, the Taiwan High Court overturned previous rulings in a decision that found protesters guilty of incitement, obstruction, theft, and damage of public property. The decision was appealed to the Supreme Court, and remanded to the High Court in October 2021 as legitimate civil disobedience, which revoked seven guilty rulings and dropped the cases on the student activists including Wei Yang. Political In a meeting with Taiwanese politician James Soong on May 7, 2014, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping said that economic integration between China and Taiwan was mutually beneficial, would bring positive results for both sides and should not be disturbed. Xi appeared to address the Sunflower Movement indirectly, saying China wanted to know more about the concerns of people in Taiwan. Soong urged Beijing to be more tolerant of Taiwan's centrist and pluralist views. On May 18, Lin Fei-fan, Chen Wei-ting and Huang Kuo-chang formed a new organization, . The organization aims to reform Taiwan's referendum laws and push for legislative review of the CSSTA, along with other cross-strait pacts and economic bills. On May 21, DPP legislators criticized the Mainland Affairs Council for classifying the disadvantages of the trade accord and releasing only information it considers favorable to the agreement. Responding to the questions, Mainland Affairs Council Minister Wang Yu-chi said that the classified information was to be used for reference only within the government. Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs Cho Shih-chao said that research produced by academics is only used for internal reference for decision making. However, neither official explained why only poll numbers favorable to the government's position have been released to the public, while others were not. On June 9, deputy economics minister Woody Duh confirmed that since April, China had frozen negotiations with Taiwan over the merchandise trade agreement originally projected to be signed at the end of 2014. Some observers attributed the freeze to the services pact logjam. The Legislative Yuan held an extraordinary session on June 13 to review the services trade pact and the draft bill to increase scrutiny of future cross-strait agreements. Duh urged the legislature to quickly approve the services trade pact and the new law to increase scrutiny of future agreements to avoid delaying the follow-up merchandise trade deal talks.