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==Background== ==Background==

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The Milk Tea Alliance is an online democratic solidarity movement made up of netizens from Thailand, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. It originally started as an Internet meme, arisen 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.

Background

Early April 2020, Thai actor Vachirawat “Bright” Cheeva-aree, whose TV drama 2gether has been popular in China, reposted an image on Twitter which listed Hong Kong as a "country", after which Chinese nationalist Internet commentators attacked him and called for a boycott of his show. Bright apologized and took the image down, but Chinese netizens discovered a post by his girlfriend, model Weeraya “New” Sukaram, from 2017 which insinuated that Taiwan was an independent country and the attacks were redoubled. The Chinese embassy in Bangkok posted a long statement on Facebook condemning the online criticism and a fierce digital battle ensued between Thai netizens and the Chinese embassy. Thai netizens took to social media and defended Bright with their criticism turning into more generalized criticism of China, launching a Twitter war with the hashtag #nnevvy. Within Thailand support for Hong Kong and Taiwan's struggle against Chinese encroachment has unified the disparate groups of pro-democracy protesters with anti-Beijing sentiment becoming a part of their anti-authoritarian platform.

Twitter users in Taiwan and Hong Kong soon joined Thai users in what The Telegraph called "a rare moment of regional solidarity". Pallabi Munsi, writing in OZY, described the Milk Tea Alliance taking on 50 Cent Party and Little Pink as "Asia's volunteer army rising against China’s internet trolls."

Timeline

In the following months, the Milk Tea Alliance has evolved from being an anti-Beijing meme into a "leaderless protest movement pushing for change across Southeast Asia."

  • After Australia called for an investigation into the World Health Organization's botched handling of the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19), China threatened a consumer boycott if Australia did not back down from its demands for an inquest. Netizens then included Australia as a member of the Milk Tea Alliance, however the relation to milk tea is tenuous with the milk product Aptamil standing in for an actual variety of milk tea in imagery.
  • In August 2020 renewed pro-democracy protests in Thailand, its largest anti-government protests since the 2014 military coup, drew support and solidarity from Taiwanese and Hong Kongers like Joshua Wong. The hashtag #MilkTeaAlliance was heavily used by protesters.

Name

Milk tea is seen as a symbol of anti-China solidarity by southeast Asians because in many southeast Asian countries tea is historically consumed with milk, while in China it is not. The Taiwanese bubble tea, Hong Kong-style milk tea and Thai tea are all local variations of milk tea with strong similarities.

See also

References

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  2. Bunyavejchewin, Poowin. "Will the 'Milk Tea War' Have a Lasting Impact on China-Thailand Relations?". thediplomat.com. The Diplomat. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  3. McDevitt, Dan. "'In Milk Tea We Trust': How a Thai-Chinese Meme War Led to a New (Online) Pan-Asia Alliance". thediplomat.com. The Diplomat. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  4. Lau, Jessie. "Why the Taiwanese are thinking more about their identity". www.newstatesman.com. New Statesman. Archived from the original on 21 May 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  5. Chan, Christina. "Milk is thicker than blood: An unlikely digital alliance between Thailand, Hong Kong & Taiwan". hongkongfp.com. Hong Kong Free Press. Archived from the original on 19 August 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  6. ^ Chen, Heather. "Milk Tea Alliance: How A Meme Brought Activists From Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Thailand Together". www.vice.com. Archived from the original on 23 August 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  7. Smith, Nicola (3 May 2020). "#MilkTeaAlliance: New Asian youth movement battles Chinese trolls". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2 July 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  8. Munsi, Pallabi (2020-07-15). "The Asian Volunteer Army Rising Against China's Internet Trolls". OZY. Archived from the original on 2020-07-29. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
  9. ^ Deol, Taran. "'We conquer, we kill': Taiwan cartoon showing Lord Rama slay Chinese dragon goes viral". theprint.in. The Print. Archived from the original on 18 June 2020. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  10. Everington, Keoni. "Photo of the Day: Australia joins Milk Tea Alliance with Taiwan". www.taiwannews.com.tw. Taiwan News. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  11. Patpicha, Tanakasempipat; Chow, Yanni. "Pro-Democracy Milk Tea Alliance Brews in Asia". www.usnews.com. US News and World Report. Archived from the original on 2020-08-23. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
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