[5] During her acceptance speech, Panai mentioned the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, and her comments were censored from the internet in China.
[7] In February 2017, Tsai Ing-wen's government declared a series of public lands as aboriginal ancestral territories.
[7] Panai denounced the moves as insufficient since it did not return lands previously taken and now owned by private entities, including notorious mines.
[7] Panai was one of the leaders of the Indigenous Ketagalan Boulevard protest concerning the delineation of traditional lands of Taiwanese aborigines.
[7] During the protest, Panai won an appeal against a fine levied by the Taipei City Government,[10] and continued camping until the presidential inauguration of William Lai.