Published: March 20th, 2024,
Last updated: May 30th, 2025

It has been ten years since Taiwan’s civil society spectacularly stopped the comprehensive Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement (CSSTA) with the People’s Republic of China at the last minute. At the time, the ruling Kuomintang Party (KMT) finalized the controversial agreement after reviewing it in just 30 seconds the day before. On the night of March 18, 2014, several hundred protesters successfully occupied the plenary chamber of the Legislative Yuan, as Taiwan’s parliament is officially known.