Figure 5: The Milk Tea Alliance is an online democratic solidarity movement connected to Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan and Myanmar that pushes back against Chinese domination in the region. It aligns itself with other global anti-authoritarian/ pro-democracy movements such as various country-based Spring Revolutions. Protesters in Thailand and Myanmar have adopted the protest salute from the fictional Hunger Games movie series as a sign of resistance by people facing injustice everywhere. truth and democracy, hailing the strike movement, and calling for bravery and the sacrifice of blood to repel the dictators.37 Gen Z drew tactical understanding from veteran activists from the 1988 and 2007 uprisings as well as from social movement theory and tactics encountered through the Internet and in the university setting. Over time the movement increasingly drew connections with other anti-authoritarian protest movements and alliances such as the Milk Tea Alliance, protests in Hong Kong, Taiwan’s Sunflower protests, and the rolling anti-authoritarian Spring Revolutions that began with the Arab Spring in 2010. See Figure 5. 37 “We Don’t Need It | အလိုမရွ”ိ , Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= 1lsa7Va5C6g (accessed 5 April 2021). 19 21-J07648 01 Trends_2021-7.indd 19 28/4/21 9:34 AM