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The Bamboo Union Triads, Taiwan's White Wolf Godfather, and a Murdered Reporter in SF

2024/3/5
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播音员：本集讲述了1984年华裔记者Henry Liu在旧金山被杀事件，以及此事件与台湾最大黑帮竹联帮，特别是竹联帮要员张安乐（绰号白狼）之间的关联。Henry Liu生前曾报道台湾政治人物与黑帮的勾结，并因此受到威胁。他的遇害不仅引发国际关注，也对台美关系造成冲击。张安乐虽然身处美国，却通过其在加州的影响力，操控着竹联帮在美国的活动，涉及毒品交易、卖淫和敲诈勒索等多种犯罪活动。Henry Liu的死，揭露了台湾政治与黑帮之间的复杂关系，也让张安乐（白狼）这个名字为世人所知。此后，白狼虽然因贩毒入狱，却在狱中获得多个学位，出狱后更成为竹联帮首脑，并积极参与台湾政治，甚至在中国大陆成立政党，主张两岸统一。尽管其影响力近年来有所下降，但他仍然是台湾政坛上一个不容忽视的人物，其与黑帮和政治的复杂关系，以及对台湾社会的影响，值得深入探讨。

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Henry Liu, a Chinese-American reporter, was gunned down in 1984, bringing attention to the Bamboo Union Triad. His reporting on Taiwan's powerful Changs and their alleged corruption and ties to triad gangs made him a target.

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When Chinese-American reporter Henry Liu was gunned down in his Daly City garage in 1984, it brought the Bamboo Union, Taiwan’s most powerful Triad, to global attention. But while the killing frayed ties between the island and DC, authorities skipped over a guy in California pulling the strings all along—a silver-tongued philosophy grad who’d gone from Taipei street fighting to restauranteur and the Bamboo Union’s point-man in the United States.

His name was Chang An-lo, and he’d soon be behind bars for a massive narco bust in New York. But insiders knew him by another, far more fearsome name: White Wolf. And his story—one that would weave between the States, Taiwan and the Chinese mainland—was just getting started.

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