Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
On May 14, 2022, Payton S. Gendron, a white supremacist, opened fire on black people in a New York supermarket. The next day, thousands of miles away in California, David Wenwei Chou, a militant supporter of Communist China, opened fire in a Taiwanese church.
While Gendron’s mass shooting has been widely covered, with every detail of his manifesto made public, Chou’s motives have received very little coverage. Biden visited Buffalo, NY where the supermarket shooting took place, but has shown no signs of visiting Laguna Woods, CA.
Unlike Gendron, Chou may not have passed around the usual 4chan manifesto, and probably never used Discord or Twitch, but his motives are certainly no great mystery. He had his own manifesto, “Diary of an Independence-Destroying Angel” (a reference to Taiwan’s independence) that he sent to an alleged pro-Chinese paper operating in the United States.
While we’ve been regaled with excerpts from Gendron’s manifesto, the contents of Chou’s manifesto have yet to be printed. And that’s certainly a convenient double standard.
But even without Chou’s manifesto, we know that he had been recruited by Communist China and was a member of a ChiCom front group aimed at the very people whom he set out to kill.
Chou had told a neighbor that he saw himself as Chinese and “strongly believed China and Taiwan were one country.” Notes left behind by Chou referred to the same ChiCom idea. A photo shows Chou next to a banner in Chinese reading, “Swiftly and violently exterminate the independence demons.” The reference was to efforts by Taiwan to maintain its independence.
It’s also typical of the violent rhetoric being directed by China at the people of Taiwan.
Chou had been a director of Las Vegas Chinese for Peaceful Unification where the eliminationist banner in question had allegedly been displayed. The Vegas organization was apparently a chapter of the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification which is run by China’s United Front Work Department.
In 2020, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had announced the designation of NACPU as a foreign mission controlled by Communist China.
“Peaceful reunification” is China’s euphemism for taking over the nation of Taiwan.
A year after Pompeo’s designation, China’s Xi had urged that “compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, must come together and move forward in unison. We must take resolute action to utterly defeat any attempt toward ‘Taiwan independence.'” And called for “peaceful national reunification” while warning that “no one should underestimate the resolve, the will, and the ability of the Chinese people to defend their national sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
In March 2022, the Communist regime emphasized that it intended to solve the problem of Taiwan “in the new era”: a term widely taken to mean during Xi’s rule.
In April, China’s Los Angeles consul warned that his regime would “reserve the option of taking all necessary measures” in response to, among others, “Taiwanese independence separatists.”
Chou’s attack at the Geneva Presbyterian Church where he opened fire was not a random act.
It was a Communist terrorist attack.
While the mass shooting only killed one person and wounded four others, Chou had made plans for a massacre. He glued the locks and nailed a door shut. He had brought explosive devices and had clearly studied previous mass shootings.
It was only Dr. John Cheng’s heroism in tackling Chou, at the expense of his life, that prevented the Communist mass shooter from racking up a much bigger death toll.
The FBI and local authorities are treating this Communist attack on a church as a hate crime, yet there’s been virtually no national coverage and no action from the Biden administration.
“Beijing’s pro-unification campaign has been sending out dehumanizing languages such as ‘annihilating the people and saving the island’ and dismissing the Taiwanese independence movement as a violent separatist crime,” an academic warned.
Secretary of State Pompeo had warned that China “uses front organizations like the NACPU to advance propaganda and malign influence.”
Even while the Biden administration tries to stamp out domestic free speech under the guise of fighting “disinformation”, it’s dialing back the Trump administration’s efforts against China’s influence operations.
In February, Biden’s DOJ shut down the “China Initiative” while falsely claiming that it had “fueled a narrative of intolerance and bias”. Using leftist talking points, it dishonestly contended that the attempts to stop Communist China’s persecution of Asians in America was somehow connected to a “rise in anti-Asian hate crime and hate incidents”.
The church shooting in Laguna Woods shows however that fighting China’s Communist infiltration saves Asian-American lives.
Numerous Chinese Americans have complained of being stalked, followed, spied on and threatened by ChiCom agents operating in the United States.
This latest attack escalates the assaults and kidnapping plots to Communist terrorism.
Had the Biden administration taken China’s influence operations seriously, the church shooting in Laguna Woods might have been averted. By shutting down the China Initiative, Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland betrayed America and Asian-Americans in particular.
That’s why the Biden administration is focusing on Buffalo and not Laguna Woods.
The racist supermarket shooting was a failure by New York authorities, however the Geneva Presbyterian Church shooting was a crime whose roots were in Beijing. While Democrats have deployed counterintelligence resources to target domestic political opponents, they have surrendered to China’s intelligence assault while claiming that opposing it would be racist.
Biden can go to Buffalo to score some political points for the midterm elections, but he can’t go to Laguna Woods because the blood from the Geneva church shooting is on his hands.
gravenimage says
Did Biden’s Appeasement of China Cause a Communist Church Shooting?
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It *sure didn’t help*. Glad to see this awful story covered by Daniel Greenfield.
This thug Chou believed that Taiwanese Americans deserve to die because Taiwan is free of the Communist Chinese heel. As noted, the carnage would have been much worse if not for the brave actions of Dr. John Cheng, who gave his life. He should be recognized as a hero.
Taiwan may be somewhat safer now because fellow totalitarian regime Russia has done so poorly in their efforts to seize Ukraine. I’m sure this hasn’t escaped China’s notice. But they are not apt to give up. They will keep watching the world scene, for decades if necessary, until they believe that defenders are weak or uncommitted enough to make their move.
Good cartoon from Bosch Fawstin. Always great to see his work here.
mortimer says
Taiwan never fell under the control of the communists, so it is not part of communist China.
Infidel says
Taiwan has stopped pretending that it is the ‘real China’, and the ruling party there the DPP just wants it to be Taiwan. This has caused the KMT, which previously fled the Chicoms, to now become a pro-China party. The only reason Taiwan hasn’t declared itself completely non-China has been to avoid a Chicom invasion
gravenimage says
Yes–I’ve seen people absurdly imply that since most Taiwanese don’t want a full declaration of Taiwanese independence that this means they want Communist China to invade and take over. But it’s not–they just hope the status quo will hold. Virtually no one in Taiwan wants a Communist takeover.
Vishnujana says
They want to insinuate that children can decide to multilateral their genitalia and allegedly become another sex but an 18 year old can’t buy guns… up to the mid-20th century kids brought guns to school all the time as normal and never did we hear of mass shootings. What changed?
The problem are these degraded failed communist schools headed by glorified babysitter welfare recipients (teachers). Along with useless police are why you pay such high property taxes (which is feudalism. Income and property taxes came much later in American history—modern innovations to enslave you on your own property. You really don’t own it. Give tax credits or deductions to people who pay for a child’s education and privatize it.
In fact If you can’t homeschool your kid you aren’t very educated. It means you can’t keep ahead of a 1-12 grader. It means public schooling failed you; wasted youth.
Same people who mocked home-schooling want home schooling now. This wouldn’t happen with widespread homeschooling.
And let people arm themselves. Coward police again stepped down because they are simply greedy mercenaries. Privatize police too or make them all elected like cops (at least elect most of the top brass).
The phrase ‘gun violence’ is also a loaded term. Most crimes are caused by gangs in the inner city. And they never count how many crimes are stopped by guns—just brandishing them have stopped countless crimes. Legalize drugs and you will end most gun deaths.
The constant claims that public schools don’t have enough money does not often hold water. For instance, in Oakland, the average spent per student per year in the public schools is $15,554. The average cost of private school in the region is $15,658 per year–almost identical, and probably a bit less than this in Oakland itself. Yet most private schools have good academic showings, but only a third of pubic school children even read at grade level, and numbers are even worse for math.
If parents work there are homeschooling groups. Khan Academy on-line is a better teacher than these communists. School is the biggest drain on the economy after military (including the overpaid judiciary—mediocre political hacks).
gravenimage says
For instance, in Oakland, the average spent per student per year in the public schools is $15,554. The average cost of private school in the region is $15,658 per year–almost identical, and probably a bit less than this in Oakland itself. Yet most private schools have good academic showings, but only a third of pubic school children even read at grade level, and numbers are even worse for math.
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The above is straight from one of my posts–word for word, cut and paste.
Not sure about the Khan Academy–it may be fine, but it is also run by a Pakistani Muslim. I would proceed with caution.
Andrew Blackadder says
Old Joe flew up to Buffalo NY right away so he could scream white supremacy but I didnt see him go anywhere near Boulder Colorado and more people died there, I think…But Old Joe wants everybody to know just how anti racist he really is even though a Grand Wizard of the KKK was one of his best friends and whos Funeral he spoke at glowingly.
He also thinks its a good idea for his own people to be a minority in the country his own people founded…
Ya just cant fix that kind of stupid…
2024 cannot come soon enough for me
Trump 2024 ..Please Lord…
JimJFox says
2nd Amendment “The right to bear arms…”
plus the (never quoted)… “as part of a well- regulated militia”.
Is that correct?
Whatever, mass killings are part of American culture that no-one can challenge; maybe even a National (Rifle Association) tradition?
One of the excuses to justify the right military style weapons is the claimed possibility of a tyrannical government being imposed on the USA. How would an armed citizenry defeat the armed forces? Ludicrous, right?
JimJFox says
… justify the right TO OWN…
gravenimage says
This idea that this avowed Communist shooter is part of the right is just absurd. Did you hope no one would notice this?
Alfredo says
The powers that be are already conditioning the masses to accept the notion that the CCP intends in the not too distant future to “unify” Taiwan with Mainland China.
That is the reason they purchased Hunter Biden, in order to gain access to the old man. The Biden family is totally compromised by the CCP.
The infiltration goes all the way up to the highest levels of all the branches of the American government.
If the GOP doesn’t regain Congress at least and hopefully the White House in 2024, then we can kiss goodbye to the American dream as we know it.
gravenimage says
The shootings in Buffalo and in Texas–both terrible–have gotten a *lot* of attention, but this one is almost completely ignored. I suppose this Communist shooter and person of color does not fit the narrative…