page_title: Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement
section_title: Sunflower Student Movement
hierarchical_section_title: Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement / Public opinion / Sunflower Student Movement
caption_attribution_description: English: protesters outside Legislative Yuan in Taipei around 2.30pm on Mar 21, 2014
context_page_description: The Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement, commonly abbreviated CSSTA and sometimes alternatively translated Cross-Strait Agreement on Trade in Services, is a treaty between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan, signed in June 2013 but never ratified by the Nationalist Chinese legislature, aimed at liberalizing trade in services between the two economies. Under the terms of the treaty, service industries such as banking, healthcare, tourism, film, telecommunications, and publishing would be opened to investment and businesspeople would be able to obtain indefinitely renewable visas for the other territory. It would become easier for businesses to set up offices and branches in the other territory and for large stakes in businesses to be sold to the other party’s investors.
  The CSSTA is one of two planned follow-up treaties to the 2010 Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement. The other, the Cross-Strait Goods Trade Agreement, has not yet been negotiated.
  In March 2014 the Sunflower Student Movement began.
context_section_description: On March 18, 2014, protesters occupied the Legislative Yuan to raise their concern about the trade accord, which was forced to the legislative floor without proper due process. The protest, peaking at more than 500,000 people, is the largest student-led protest in Taiwan's history. Thousands of riot police from the National Police Agency were mobilized during the protests.
caption: Protesters outside the Legislative Yuan
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