The placard reads

A placard from the Beirut demonstrations.

One demonstrator holds a placard that says 8 martyrs

Pitang holding a placard which reads I am a child labourer .

A protestor carrying a I love Bahrain placard during a rally in Bahrain in 2013.

She was thrown in prison in Tibet for two years for putting up a little tiny placard protesting the occupation of her country.

In the photo, Professor Yang Zhizhu from China Youth University for Political Sciences is holding a placard to sell himself as a slave in order to pay the penalty for violating the one child policy

On Twitter, shaistaAziz writes We've been afraid for 30 years we are no longer afraid and at the Cairo demonstration in Tahrir Square, a protester carries a placard with a simple solution Mubarak, You go away.

With increasing change in China and growing economic and social contacts across the strait, it should be possible to find a formula that allows the Taiwanese to maintain their market economy and democratic system without a placard at the UN.