NPR
Date: December 20, 20194:42 PM ET
By: Emily Feng

There's a surprising force shaping Taiwanese politics — an alleged mobster who spent years in U.S. federal prison. He talks about how his time in U.S. prison brought him closer to Beijing.

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:

Our international correspondents spend a lot of time in the field talking to people at the center of news stories. And sometimes, they hear something that doesn't quite fit into the story that they're trying to file on deadline, but they can't shake it out of their head – a piece of sound that never makes it to air but that they can't forget. All this week, we've been asking our international correspondents to bring us their favorite piece of tape from 2019 that hit the cutting room floor. My co-host Mary Louise Kelly caught up with Emily Feng, our correspondent based in Beijing.

MARY LOUISE KELLY, BYLINE: So who are we about to hear from?

EMILY FENG, BYLINE: We're about to hear from a man named Chang An-lo. He's also known as the White Wolf in Taiwan, where he lives now. But before he went back to Taiwan, he spent a decade in the U.S. in federal prison, actually.    [FULL  INTERVIEW]