Protesters who took part in the 2014 movement against closer ties with China say it holds lessons for Hong Kong and Ukraine

Rushing over walls and through doors, they clambered into the parliamentary chamber, crowding the halls with placards, while piling chairs against the door as barricades against police.

Hundreds of young people, mostly Taiwanese university students, were storming Taipei’s national legislature.

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