Posted on Jun 9, 2022
Complex Taiwanese and Chinese identities are exposed after gunman enters church
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Just before David Wenwei Chou glued and chained shut the doors of California's Geneva Presbyterian Church, then shot the elderly congregants inside, he mailed his handwritten diaries to a Taiwanese newspaper.
He titled his screed: "Diary of an Angel of Destroying Independence" — referring to Taiwanese independence from China.
The rampage this past May left one person dead and five injured. It also exposed how complex Taiwanese and Chinese identities are — and how a combustible mixture of political enmities imported by diaspora communities combined with American gun culture can prove deadly.
At first, English-language coverage mistakenly described Chou, the shooter, as a Chinese immigrant. In fact, he was born in Taiwan to Chinese parents who left China following the end of a brutal civil war in 1949 — a group of people in Taiwan called waishengren, meaning "outside province people." Many waishengren were part of a mass exodus of Kuomingtang officials and their families, the political party that lost to the Communist Party that now governs from Beijing.
Just before David Wenwei Chou glued and chained shut the doors of California's Geneva Presbyterian Church, then shot the elderly congregants inside, he mailed his handwritten diaries to a Taiwanese newspaper.
He titled his screed: "Diary of an Angel of Destroying Independence" — referring to Taiwanese independence from China.
The rampage this past May left one person dead and five injured. It also exposed how complex Taiwanese and Chinese identities are — and how a combustible mixture of political enmities imported by diaspora communities combined with American gun culture can prove deadly.
At first, English-language coverage mistakenly described Chou, the shooter, as a Chinese immigrant. In fact, he was born in Taiwan to Chinese parents who left China following the end of a brutal civil war in 1949 — a group of people in Taiwan called waishengren, meaning "outside province people." Many waishengren were part of a mass exodus of Kuomingtang officials and their families, the political party that lost to the Communist Party that now governs from Beijing.
Complex Taiwanese and Chinese identities are exposed after gunman enters church
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good morning, thank you for the solid read/share of the most informational good buddy.
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Very little to do with independence. More to do with a type of tribalism and politics. The Democratic China (in one of questionable fair elections)lost to the Communist Party. They, the party of democracy had to flee to a near by Island. This so all who believed in Liberty and Freedom could do so. And they did with the help of the United Kingdom defending their sovereignty. As a New Nation State.
Amazing how some wish to change history by leaving some facts out.
Amazing how some wish to change history by leaving some facts out.
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MSG Roy Cheever
Can anyone see what happened there in China, a Civil war over an election, then the vilification of those who wanted to bring freedom back. Doesn’t that kinda seem like that is or may happen here in the U S?
Is NPR warning us or giving us an opportunity to understand that all will be well when it happens here.
Naw!?! I must be seeing more to it than is there. Hehe
Is NPR warning us or giving us an opportunity to understand that all will be well when it happens here.
Naw!?! I must be seeing more to it than is there. Hehe
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