Students and activists occupy Taiwan's legislature for over three weeks in protest at the handling of a cross-strait services trade agreement. The agreement is shelved, and the movement reshapes Taiwanese politics.
Why it mattersThe Sunflower Movement marked the point at which further economic integration became politically unsellable in Taiwan regardless of its economic merits. It is the clearest evidence that the engagement strategy had run into a public opinion constraint, and it fed directly into the 2016 change of government.