Crossing the strait: The red choice
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Updated: 2025-10-26 14:08
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From a heroic anti-Japanese resistance fighter to an underground member of the Communist Party of China, Lin Cheng-heng — a scion of Taiwan's prestigious Wufeng Lin family — transformed his deep empathy for his compatriots' suffering into an unshakable revolutionary conviction. As he once told his son, while pointing to a map with small red flags, he hoped that one day "Taiwan will also have a red flag planted on it", a wish that led to his final chapter at Taipei's Machangding, where he was shot dead at 35.
