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The White Wolf

One of Taiwan’s most notorious triad leaders reinvents himself as a pro-unification politician

By J.R. | TAIPEI

BESPECTACLED and dressed modestly in a dark Chinese suit, Chang An-lo’s manner is erudite. On August 29th he addressed the Taiwan Foreign Correspondent’s Club. It is hard to believe he was once one of Taiwan’s most feared triad leaders, or that he was incarcerated in a maximum-security American penitentiary for ten years on drug-trafficking charges. In Taiwan he goes by the name of the “White Wolf”.

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