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“He said he was unhappy living in mainland China and wanted to seek freedom and democracy in Taiwan,” said a Taiwanese police officer.
Zhou also told officers that life in mainland China “is all kinds of bad.”
Some officials doubted whether or not Zhou truly made the entire trip through the waterway on the dingy.
“We suspect the man boarded a large fishing boat and used the dinghy to reach Taiwan after the fishing boat [entered Taiwanese waters],” said a source from the coastguard.
Regardless of how he made his way over, it has created concerns within the government on security of the strait, with Taiwanese Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng stating the government would “study the case further and work with the coastguard to nail down any problems.”
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