Taiwan’s ‘White Wolf’ leads lonely crusade to ‘reunify’ with China

Taipei, Taiwan – For a man associated with organised crime, election interference, and Chinese influence operations, Chang An-lo is adamant that he is on a mission of peace.Widely known as the “White Wolf”, Chang is the founder of the Chinese Unification Promotion Party (CUPP), which advocates for Taiwan’s “reunification” with China.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Three Palestinian families besieged in their homes by Israeli settlerslist 2 of 4Leavitt to leave as White House press secretarylist 3 of 4Why tariffs are not the right tool to bolster US productionlist 4 of 4Russian strike sparks fire at Ukraine port; Zelenskyy seeks interceptorsend of listChang’s position is not a popular one in Taiwan despite the island’s deep cultural and historical ties with China.Taiwan, a democracy of some 23 million people, has been administered separately from the Chinese mainland for more than a century, first as a Japanese colony and then as the “Republic of China”, whose government fled to the island in the 1940s at the end of the Chinese Civil War.Opinion polls suggest that most Taiwanese want to maintain the island’s status as a de facto independent state, even as the Chinese C...