1025 Rally To Safeguard Taiwan
The 1025 demonstration(Chinese: 1025反黑心顧台灣大遊行; literally "October 25 Opposing Evil Minds and Looking out for Taiwan March") was a demonstration on October 25, 2008 sponsored by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and Taiwan Solidarity Union in Taipei, Taiwan. This protest march was launched five months after Ma's inauguration and was preceded by an earlier August 30, 2008 protest in August which focused on Ma's failing economic plans.
The protesters marched against the protester's perceived pro-China policies of the Ma administration. An estimated half a million people were reported to have participated in the march. It was planned by the DPP in response to the Chinese tainted milk powder scandal and Taiwan's perceived growing ties with the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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