"In fact, there has always been plenty of positive energy and activism in Taiwan, which have never at any time withered," says Chou Sheng-shin, executive director of the planning center for the social group Thousand-Mile Trail, a view with which National Taiwan University psychology professor Huang Kuang-kuo happens to agree.
「其實台灣的上升動力與正向力量一直存在，始終沒有衰減，」社運團體「千里步道」籌備中心執行長周聖心、台灣大學心理系教授黃光國也不約而同地說。