Because the sunflower movement, I am tracing news from Taiwan. I donot think that the Taiwan young people has the potential and thought they claimed in sunflower movement. All their new thoughts are not newly developed but from DPP. Many of them is claimed at least once by Tsai Ing-wen in 2012. They were repeating the slogans from DPP.
The sunflower movement even not match the young people's expected interest. A changing market brings oppotunities, and the young people is the group lack of oppotunities to establish their own careers. However, they said no to their oppotunities and stood for the former generation's interest. This is the first conflict in there slogans and activities.
The second conflict is that Anti-ECFA indeed protected the monopoly interest of consortium. For example the Lian Tsian group, which has monopoly interest over the both side. A relatively incestuous business grows the monopoly interest of consortiums. However, the sunflower movement claimed that they are against consortiums. They even had no idea, the openning market is unique way to against consortiums.
The third conflict is that the groups they supported did not support the young people. Two frequently mentioned industries: beauty-industry and car rantal industry are supporting ECFA, because it brings more jobs in beauty industry and new market in car rantal industry. However, the young people cited the slogans of several DPP political lawers' assumption and incorrectly stood in the opposite side of the industry to "support" the industry.
As an aftermath, I have to say the whole sunflower movement was a stupidity. I traced the attitude of USA. In Mar. 17th they were pleased to invite Taiwan to join the TPP, but the attitude was changed in Mar. 25th. The USA said, Taiwan should reform its economy first. It implied that Taiwan was excluded from TPP. The RCEP was also closed. Although the sunflower movement pleased young people all over the world, but they donot please the politicians. Supporting Japan and USA like @
Kolaps is personal. Whether USA supports them, is the key problem. The sunflower movement is a self-centred and narcissistic.
Although DPP said the sunflower movement is not organized by them, but the slogans are entirely from them. As a volting strategy it is successful, especially for Tsai Ing-wen a single person. As a perlude of volt 2016, the cost for Taiwan society is too high. As I observed, the Taiwan young people are brainwashed by Tsai and her empty political ideals. She may win the volting, but win the supporting from China and USA is another thing.
The industry sector is escaping from Taiwan. If Taiwan cannot go back to the traditional route, the next escaping sector will be finances and services. The first wave of escaping of finance may come in late 2014 or early 2015. Although many scholars in Taiwan alarmed the society, but the young people have apparently completedly exceeded their professors for the “success” of sunflower movement.