News Snapshot:
A Chinese man claims he traveled 112 miles from the mainland to Taiwan in a small rubber dingy in a desperate 11-hour journey for “freedom and democracy,” according to reports. Zhou Xian, 33, was found in Taichung harbor on Friday night and claimed to have just crossed the Taiwan Strait — one of the most heavily policed waterways in the world, the South China Morning Post reported . “He said he was unhappy living in mainland China and wanted to seek freedom and democracy in Taiwan,” a Taiwanese police officer told the outlet. Zhou told officers he traveled from Quanzhou...
