Did Laguna Woods congregation’s support for Taiwan independence factor in shooting?
Politics and religion are tangled up in many parts of the world, and Taiwan is no exception.
, May 15 may have targeted the Taiwanese Presbyterian congregation out of anger over the church’s pro-independence stance. David Wenwei Chou, a 68-year-old Las Vegas resident, had notes in his car suggesting he “was upset about political tensions between China and Taiwan” and harbored “hatred of the Taiwanese people,” according to Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes.
“The majority of people in Taiwan do not want unification with China — but there are fringe groups that are connected to larger, pro-China groups,” said Lev Nachman, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies who got his Ph.D. at UC Irvine. “The shooter, perhaps, is tied to one of these groups.”
And Chou, at age 68, is of the age that might remember the tensions of identity politics between the mainlanders and the island’s local residents well. Taiwan emerged from martial law in 1987 and, over a short quarter-century, established a solid democracy and a strong economy, all while existing in a strange netherworld where it’s not recognized as an independent nation by most of the world, and continues to be claimed by China.
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