vTaiwan used Pol.is early in the Bluebird movement—gathering outside Qingdao East Road, from which “Bluebird” (青鳥) took its name. The constitutional roles of the Legislative Yuan vs Executive Yuan (and the Control Yuan, later the Judicial Yuan) were at issue. In rallies you saw the ROC flag beside the Taiwan‑independence flag—unprecedented in earlier civic movements. Autocratic pressure forged unity: “pressure makes diamonds.”

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