The point being that the left (and us to a degree) need to understand that the world and Asia in particular are a lot more complicated than what people in the States would want to believe.
Posted on 05/16/2022 4:44:07 PM PDT by markomalley
A Chinese immigrant who padlocked a church and opened fire on its Taiwanese-American congregation, killing one person and injuring five others, was motivated by hatred of the island and its people, US investigators said Monday.
David Chou jammed the doors shut using chains and superglue as dozens of parishioners enjoyed a post-service banquet at the church in Laguna Woods, near Los Angeles.
The 68-year-old, an American citizen who hails from China, also hid bags containing Molotov cocktails and spare ammunition around the building, before opening fire with two handguns, in what investigators say was a “methodical” attempt to inflict carnage.
“We know that he formulated a strategy that he wanted to employ,” Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes said.
“It was very well thought out from how he had prepared, both being there, securing the location, placing things about the inside of the room to perpetuate additional victims if he had the opportunity.”
Chou, who works as a security guard in Las Vegas, launched the attack out of “politically motivated hate…(and) was upset about political tensions between China and Taiwan.”
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The point being that the left (and us to a degree) need to understand that the world and Asia in particular are a lot more complicated than what people in the States would want to believe.
The false flags are out lately.
WTF are these people doing here?
Time for new anti-coolie laws?
Seriously, 90%+of East Asian immigrants I met in the US were top drawer people. Hard work, successful, good family structure, etc. Unlike immigrants from other continents.
I would be very careful about immigrants from Red China though...or North Korea for that matter.
“ WTF are these people doing here? ”
Not sure. Helping lay railroad tracks in Nevada ?
“68-year-old, an American citizen who hails from China”
It’s wrong.
He’s born in Taiwan around 1954.
If he was from China his name would be spelled Zhou.
He’s a radical pro-China zealot, anti-Taiwan independence.
They are a small minority but there are people from Taiwan that support ChiComs because they believe in “one China” and Taiwan is part of China.
“...Taiwan is part of China...”
No. You have it backwards. China belongs to Taiwan. The real Chinese nationalist fled to Taiwan in 1949 under Chiang Kai-shek. The Russian Bolsheviks helped the red army communist CCP take Manchuria and mainland China in 1945. Without the help from Russia, it would have been the CCP fleeing to Taiwan. /spit
Reading up the other day, it seemed to me the mainland lost
control of Taiwan in 1895. It’s a rather thin claim that it
should now be returned to the mainland.
Chek (sp?) escaped to there in the 1950s. Mainland China did not
press the issue then. It shouldn’t now.
I have a pastor that was in China for 17 years. The
Chinese see it as a wayward son, they want to return home.
I wonder if they feel the same way about Tibet. Maybe
they’d like their family restored also.
“Reading up the other day, it seemed to me the mainland lost
control of Taiwan in 1895. It’s a rather thin claim that it
should now be returned to the mainland.”
They didn’t lose control, it was completely controlled by signing a treaty with Japan ceding Taiwan to Japan in perpetuity. Treaty of Shimonoseki.
Of course they didn’t ask anyone in Taiwan and Taiwanese declared Republic of Taiwan and fought the Japanese.
Japan was a lot stronger and it was less than a year to defeat Taiwan.
The ‘wayward son” type rhetoric is just nonsense. It’s all they have to justify their lust for control and power but it’s nonsense.
Taiwan is like the U.S. In that the people there settled it, beginning in the 1600’s, after leaving China. Our ancestors left Europe and had a longer sea voyage but it’s the almost exact same thing, building a new life out of nothing as settlers and pioneers. They were not colonists.
Sometimes the media doesn't get the minor details of Asian cultures
Thanks for the comments.
As far as I understand it, your comments do reflect pretty
much what I read.
Thanks.
Andy could be wrong. (But he’s usually not).
Apparently it’s the DA charging him who said he’s from Taiwan.
I don’t know yet. Some reports say he’s from a 1949 family - went to Taiwan after the communists won.
We’ll see.
This is a case of a radical Marxist atheist terrorist attacking people because he hates their freedom.
The Taiwanese press reports that he is from Taiwan, his parents having fled there in 1949. (https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/3928834)
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I think that’s the case. His family (not him) is originally from China.
Thanks for the link.
Fair enough. Thanks for the correction.
So,he actually was Asian.🤔
I’m sure the entire Establishment is gravely disappointed that it wasn’t a white supremacist magahat. They’re still searching for some connection—the perp’s six-doors-down-the-street neighbor, some guy who cut his lawn a couple of years ago, his ex-wife’s second cousin’s in-law—there must be someone!
In cultures much more ancient than ours, that span of time does not seem as long as it does to us.
I've had this experience with European friends, when they come here, and I try to show them one of our "oldest historic sites", and they have to strain to suppress their eyerolls, since many of their grand buildings and agricultural traditions pre-date the life of Christ.
And when I visited the farm community in a country from which my great-great-grandfather emigrated to America in the early 1800s, my very distant cousins were reluctant to let me know about the property where my ancestor's family had lived, fearing I would make some kind of financial claim. The thought had never crossed my mind, nor would I ever! But to them, generations in their country stretch back a lot farther.
I’ve given that thought over time. Of course, China does go
waaay back too.
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