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Kirsty Needham

Kirsty Needham is China Correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age

Student opposition: Protests against the cross-strait service trade agreement in March.

Sunflower power stalls Taiwan trade deal

Taiwan, the world's biggest maker of iPhones and iPads, has unexpectedly found its economy held hostage by protests by a young generation of digital natives, spawned – ironically – by its high-tech success.