Two Chinese — a father and son — on May 16 used a rubber dinghy to illegally arrive at Taoyuan’s Guanyin Beach. They were arrested shortly afterward. A Chinese online influencer named “Shandong Kaiko” on May 18 posted a video on social media claiming that he had stowed away to Taiwan and planted the Chinese national flag at a site on the coast of Taoyuan’s Dayuan District.