Sunflower Movement in Taiwan The Sunflower Movement, which was an Anti-Globalization Movement represented a sophisticated understanding movement of globalization from the university students of Taiwan. Between March 18 to April 10, 2014, hundreds of university students and other protestors occupied the chamber of parliament of Taiwan (Legislative Yuan). On March 17, day before the occupation began, the legislature's Internal Affairs Committee was about to begin a three day debate on the Cross-Strait Services Trade Agreement (CSSTA). However, the CSSTA chairman, Chang Ching-Chung, and a member of Taiwan's governing party of the KMT (Kuomintang), had abandoned and bypassed the committee's review and moved straight forward for legislative approval. The opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) immediately objected strongly on the floor of the chamber once they recognized the action of the Chairman. On March 18, around three hundred students gathered outside of the Legislative Yuan building, protesting to the Ma Ying-Jeou's government for mishandling the CSSTA. They expressed their frustration by the hasty review of the CSSTA, and demanding an article-by-article review of the trade agreement before moving it to the legislative floor. Finally, the government agreed to postpone the adoption of CSSTA and allowed the Internal Affairs Committee reviews all cross-strait agreement before passing for approval. Students waited until all cross-strait agreements had passed before they disbanded from the parliament building. The bypass action of the Chairman might seem trivial incident to some people and why would the students had a great reaction on this matter? There are three main causes behind this outbreak of the Sunflower Movement. First of all, the agreement has significantly increased the original limits for the Chinese investors. It will not only increase China's dominance in economic power, but it will encourage China to use this as a leverage to advance its political goal of unification. Secondly, the CSSTA gives easy access to the Chinese investors to Taiwan's service sectors to reside them in Taiwan. As a result, unions have raised concerns that it will unleash a flood of mainland white and blue collar workers, and will cause domestic workers to wage cutting, higher unemployment rates due to a surplus of labor force from China. Finally, the trade pact, which came in and had an effect of slowing down Taiwan's economy in 2012 and 2013. More economists and affected service sectors are skeptic of its economic benefits cause to Taiwan. In calling the protester anti-globalization, critics from Want China Times, attempts to lurk the conspiracy of globalization down to only free trade, and also trying to image the protesters as radical, unrealistic, and potentially dangerous to Taiwan's well being. This approach is lack of understanding in both globalization and the Sunflower Movement. Globalization involved more than a trade. It is considered as a process or leverage, which has the ability to generate its positive outcomes and negative impact on its transnational network. These outcomes or impact depends on the cohesiveness of how citizens stand together to monitor and hold their governments accountable for their actions. Globalization is not an autonomous force that controls us, contrary, it is a process that we control by monitoring, regulating, and intervening with necessary adjustment to draw an equilibrium if a transnational corporations are likely overpowering to local government. Sunflower Movement manifests a great demonstration of Anti-globalization. The university students and other activists were proficiently in their messaging and used of communication technology. They are continuously blasting their message across the globe through the use of both of traditional media and 21century technology. They simultaneously translated their press releases, analyses, and updates the movement into multiple languages to achieve the greatest global impact. Most importantly, they represent an idea and transmitting a message that most definitely transcends borders and connects with people across the globe. Their message was globalization and it’s important for the government to hear its people’s voices. For instance, an inadequate negotiated business deal can have devastating effects on the most vulnerable members of any society. A government that negotiates trade deal without listening to the voices of its people, or without carefully considering the impact of the deal on its citizens is irresponsible and illegitimate. The Sunflower protesters were speaking to this issue and were representing the vulnerable people, not just in Taiwan, but across the globe. In conveying this message, they drew attention to the President Ma's government and all potential risks associated with blindly reducing globalization to free trade. In addition, they also represented the most common fears and frustrations of people in Taiwan and across the globe. Sunflower movement is truly globalized in form and content when the university students of Taiwan communicate across borders effectively. Global interactions and democracy are essential for someone from another country to perceive the message. They demonstrate the intellectualism and cosmopolitanism of Taiwan's youth, who have a higher awareness of our economic crisis, as they recognized the potential pitfalls of the CSSTA. They foresee the threats in their highlight and that include the undemocratic behavior of government, the dominance of immense business interests in determining the country's economic priorities, and the increasing vulnerability of the working people. In conclusion, we can see the success of the Sunflower Movement was a positive component of globalization, including sophisticated means of global communication and a globally relevant message to challenge potentially negative forces of globalization to achieve their goals.