Milk Tea Alliance

It originally started as an internet meme created in response to the increased presence of chinese trolls and nationalist commentators on social media and has evolved into a dynamic cross national protest movement pushing for democracy and human rights in southeast asia.

Milk tea alliance. Milk tea alliance adalah sebuah istilah yang dipakai untuk menyebut gerakan solidaritas demokrat daring yang terdiri dari para warganet dari thailand hong kong dan taiwan istilah tersebut awalnya dimulai sebagai sebuah meme dan berubah menjadi gerakan protes lintas nasional dinamis untuk menekankan demokrasi dan ham di asia tenggara. The milk tea alliance is an online democratic solidarity movement made up of netizens from hong kong taiwan and thailand. But the symbol of east asia s informal coalition is playful a simple beverage enjoyed in all three places leading protesters to dub their unlikely cross border support the milk tea alliance. The milk tea alliance could potentially turn into a genuine transnational anti authoritarian movement a rejection of the chinese authoritarian model says roger huang a politics lecturer.

In recent months thailand has seen waves of youth led protests looking very much like the ones seen in hong kong in. Titled milk tea alliance a reference to an earlier solidarity movement uniting pro democracy netizens in taiwan thailand and hong kong the meme showed taiwan s president tsai ing wen. The milk tea alliance does not belong to one country but emerged out of a twitter hashtag back in april 2020 showing pro democracy solidarity between thailand taiwan and hong kong and now.