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There was a ramen restaurant offering spicy beef tendons on the ground floor and a spy base upstairs on a busy street in Manhattan’s Chinatown. When the FBI raided it last year, agents in dark blue shouldered their way past hole-in-the-wall produce stands selling cheap strawberries, ads for overseas mobile phone plans, and illicit gambling dens to search a secret police station.
Indictments charge that this police station did not belong to the NYPD, but China’s feared Ministry of Public Security. The men working there in the shadow of the rusted blue steel of the Manhattan Bridge were allegedly harassing and threatening Chinese Americans, organizing political events and donating to and meeting with local and national Democrat officials.
A handful of blocks away from police headquarters, federal court buildings, and the financial district where Wall Street’s brokers play with billions a day, sits a slice of Chinatown where elderly men still ride shaky bicycles and tiny elderly women carrying giant sacks of recycled cans on their backs pass by. An artist offers cartoonish sketches of Mao alongside Madonna and musicians squat on sidewalks playing haunting airs on stringed lutes.
While most New Yorkers think of Chinatown as being all one place, there are actually strict divisions between the generations of immigrants, mainlanders who predate the Communist takeover and later arrivals who are divided by language and politics. The feuds between these two groups across tenement property lines and community groups have been as furious as they have been invisible to the rest of the city. And it’s a struggle in which the new Communist arrivals with their superior numbers and political connections have won not only in Manhattan, but in San Francisco, Los Angeles and in other parts of the country served by the covert buses ferrying illegal migrants from city to city from depots near the illegal secret police station.
Where Cuban exiles mobilized and made Cuban Americans a bastion of anti-Communism despite aggressive and energetic efforts by Cuban intelligence operatives, traditional immigrant ‘Chinatowns’ (which represent a minority a the Chinese-American population in America) are dominated by Communist front groups to whom Democrat elected officials owe their allegiance.
Such was allegedly the case with 107 E. Broadway where the America Changle Association shared space with an acupuncturist, a restaurant and a handful of other typical neighborhood businesses. Prosecutors allege that the America Changle Association housed the secret Chinese police station which used its premises to coordinate with China’s Ministry of Public Security and to threaten opponents and fugitives from the brutal Communist regime.
The Changle district of the Chinese city of Fuzhou provides most of the cheap migrant labor for the sweatshops and restaurants in Chinatown. The Fuzhounese come in, sometimes legally and sometimes illegally, and then are bused to work in Chinese restaurants across America. If you’ve seen Chinese dishwashers who don’t speak English furiously scrubbing in the back of some red-and-gold painted eatery with Fu Dog statues out front, the odds are that they’re from Changle. And that they barely know that they’re in the United States of America.
The Chinese city of Fuzhou had allegedly set up the spy operation in Little Fuzhou. To most New Yorkers, the street it was on looks like just another packed Chinatown thoroughfare, but within Chinatown, East Broadway is the ‘broadway’ of Little Fuzhou. At the borders, the Cantonese of the older Chinese-Americans confronts the Fujianese of the new arrivals. And the Cantonese speakers have been delighted to see the FBI raid on one of the epicenters of Fujianese power in Chinatown. Local papers and TV stations have talked of little else.
They hope that the FBI raid on Little Fuzhou last year and the recent indictment of two men, Chen Jinping (no known relation to President Xi “Pooh” Jinping) and “Harry” Lu Jianwang, will be the beginning of a larger reckoning. But that may be excessively optimistic. Secret police stations are one thing but the America Changle Association has political connections to Mayor Eric Adams and most Democrat politicians, local or national, who represent the area.
At one America Changle Association event, Democrat politicians and representatives for Rep. Grace Meng were in attendance. Figures associated with the Fuzhou group were shown to have donated to Adams, Meng, as well as her father, Jimmy Meng, a Democrat state assemblyman who was sent to prison after soliciting an $80,000 bribe inside a fruit basket. Other recipients included Rep. Judy Chu, on whose behalf Chinese spy Fang Fang helped organize a town hall.
If all of these stories seem small, it’s because law enforcement is barely touching the tip of a political iceberg that could shred the country. Earlier this year, Canadian Security Intelligence Service documents leaked revealing that similar setups of immigrant association groups had been used to work to elect Trudeau and his Liberal Party. The secret papers exposed “undeclared cash donations” and “having business owners hire international Chinese students and ‘assign them to volunteer in electoral campaigns on a full-time basis.’”
Chinese diplomatic institutions were helping set up community associations and then mobilizing them to help the political candidates favored by Beijing, Trudeau and his Liberals, win.
It would be foolish to pretend that this is not happening in America. Had the CSIS materials not leaked, no one would know how Trudeau and his leftists were really elected. And, barring an FBI leak, we likely won’t learn what the Bureau really knows about China’s interference in our elections. And even if we do, China’s political puppets have learned to shout “racism” over any measure from expelling ChiCom spies to investigating research theft to banning TikTok.
The alleged secret police station in Little Fuzhou is one piece in a much larger political operation. And while the DOJ and the FBI have stepped in to resist China’s long standing practice of conducting police state operations on American soil, they aren’t about to blow up the secret relationship between Democrat elected officials and Communist front community groups.
The secret base above a ramen place was typical of Beijing’s operationalizing of its mass migration to western nations. Consulates coordinate community groups which become elected local and then national officials. Businessmen funded by the Chinese government and its oligarchs become community leaders, donate to politicians and set the agenda for Chinatown.
And that agenda becomes the Democrat agenda.
Harassing political dissidents, threatening violence against them and their families, organizing pro-China rallies, all things that “Harry” Lu Jianwang was accused of doing, are small stuff in the bigger picture. Last year, David Wenwei Chou opened fire in a Taiwanese church in Laguna Woods, California. Chou had been a director of Las Vegas Chinese for Peaceful Unification: allegedly a chapter of the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification.
How many other Chinese Communist operatives would be willing to carry out terrorist attacks in this country in the event of hostilities? And what are Beijing’s plans for operationalizing them?
Such questions may not be asked even though plenty of patriotic Chinese-Americans have put them forward and warned that Communist infiltration presents a grave threat to their country.
Meanwhile, the secret police station near the Manhattan Bridge where the subway passes in a rattling show of sparks overhead has closed. Another one will open in its place. Little Fuzhou continues to grow and there will be no shortage of waiters with nothing to eat and struggling businessmen watching their loans balloon with the interest rates who will happily sign up as “volunteers” to serve the Ministry of Public Security. There will be knocks on tenement doors in the dead of night, red flyers, threats outside restaurants where roasted pigs and chickens hang spread out in the windows, and perhaps even a disappearance or two that will go unresolved.
And some of the same operatives will lend a hand and some cash for the Democrats.
Thank you, Daniel Greenfield, for the very interesting article!
Thanks Daniel. One of the strangest current situations.
San Francisco is about a third ethnic Chinese, but they keep pretty quiet.
“Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown” 🙂
there’s also a secret police station in SF
There goes the “model minority”. And all these years I was hoping blacks would start acting Asian.
And all these years I was hoping objectivists would start acting human.
“ Clipped from DG above: “China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification.”
As peaceful as war ships, fighter jets and bombers encircling Taiwan and military troops reading for invasion can possibly be peaceful. Apparently China’s peace definition differs from my own.
I didn’t mean to, but my last words made me think; This Might be the Truth!
G.W. Bush is preparing his “Communism is really a religion of peace” speech as we speak.
Lenny Peekaboo is preparing his “Objectivism is really a religion of intelligence” speech as we speak.
Reunification? The commies never ever ruled Taiwan
The question to me (although in the end it doesn’t really matter) is whether the Dem Party cooperates with these organizations in return for money/power or due to shared ideology, or both. In any case, I’m sure “60 Minutes” is working on a blockbuster expose as we speak. And if you believe that it is I have some oceanfront property in Nebraska to sell you for cheap.
some of it is just that the Dems depend on bloc minority votes for control of the cities, and their control of states and the country depends on these cities
Excellent point.
WE REALLY CAN’T SEPARATE THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND CCP.
SEN DIANNE FEINSTEIN HAS SERVED RED CHINA FOR DECADES AND THEY PAID HER WELL!
Biden and China and the American ruling
class
By Jared Peterson
I agree with this author that America’s ruling elite bears the overwhelming share of responsibility for the Biden catastrophe. It was they at all levels — finance, corporate, governmental, security agencies, media and judiciary — that engineered and enabled the Biden coup. And I also agree with the author that Biden has been an unprecedented domestic disaster. We will probably never recover from it, certainly never, if Biden gets a second term, which seems highly likely.
But the current assertiveness of China is not for Biden’s account. It is the inevitable consequence of our elites’ atrociously selfish, short-sighted and disloyal decision — decades ago — to fast forward China’s accumulation of wealth and power by offshoring America’s industrial base to the Middle Kingdom. Power and international assertiveness inevitably follow wealth, especially wealth based on true productivity — which is why China became powerful over the last 20 years, while Spain’s power declined during the 17th and 18th centuries as New World gold flowed into Spain.
Daniel’s reference to Communist front community groups is on target but there’s more, as he has said before, BLM, Antifa, Universities, and now K thru 6, Day Care Centers, children’s movies and music. My, admittedly, aging senses want to tell me China but the Left wants to blame everything on Russia Disinformation. I’m beginning to think the Russia/Ukraine thing is disinformation to draw attention from what is really going on, right in plain sight, where no one can see it.
My grandchildren were watching a new movie about Peter Rabbit recently and Peter accidentally killed the gardener but the rest of his rabbit community (lol) considered him a hero for murdering the old white man.
Out in plain sight the UN Agenda 2030 calls for depopulation of white people.
The World pHarma Organisation is part of the UN too.
“The rabbit community” 🙂
Off topic, the poor rabbits are so vulnerable to predators. The white gardeners are their best friends.
We had a large undeveloped area nearby (later part of a park) when I was a kid. Back then I would see a few rabbits there from time to time, but they must have been wiped out by predators.
A couple decades ago we had a black bunny in the neighborhood that was kinda adopted as the neighborhood pet by the well-off naive white liberals there. That rabbit was incredibly fast, no fox could have caught him if the rabbit knew the fox was around. I kept warning the neighbors that there was a fox around, whom I had seen a dozen times or so. But they insisted there were no foxes around. I even knew the area where the fox lived and how he/she walked a couple miles through the neighborhood to get to the park, where he could scrounge up some food. Anyway, at some point the fox must have caught the poor rabbit, probably by stealth. Shows the real dangers of white liberals, they don’t see the danger coming, so they don’t protect their pets or children.
The M.S. Media remain Silent
They ARE China, in my opinion. I hear very pro (communist) China statements from young people who are consuming leftwing media sites all day. “ We have to learn how to do it like China who really know how to do things right ….”
China is a basketcase. Their GDP figures are phony. Outside of the major cities there is grinding poverty. Inside the cities, indoor plumbing is still hard to find.
Very good article on a subject that receives far too little attention and is highly dangerous. Thank you Daniel!
thank you Andreas
I have a deep disgust for the Fuzhou-area associations in the USA (Changle is one of the counties near Fuzhou). Most of their members got in claiming persecution; yet once they’re given asylum, they join pro-Communist associations. SOmeone needs to look into this. Further, the Fuzhou area back in the 1990’s was (maybe it still is) the buckle of the alien-smuggling belt. Those gangs are nasty, and never give up their pursuit of the pound of flesh owed by their clients. They also make the old Sicilian Mafia look like a bunch of choirboys. Back in the aftermath of the Tiananmen incident (I was a consular officer in Bangkok, then in Gangzhou), a typical story from an escapee who washed up in a third country city was “I was hoping to go to the Fujian coast to get to Taiwan, but they were on the lookout for us”.–yet in the same period of time, the alien-smuggling business did not miss a beat. Clearly, it has ties to the CCP government.
The Chinese government has taken advantage of our asylum system, and now, apparently, is using its infiltration techniques to go after people who had legitimate asylum claims. I hope the FBI goes whole hog after these Gong An Bu stations in the USA..
thank you for sharing your experiences and yes China’s role in migrant export is one of those things that bafflingly no one seems to discuss
Putin supporters should support China in this. They have a right to rule all Chinese anywhere they are, right? Isn’t that the rationale for those who support Putin’s invasion of Ukraine? I mean Hispanic-Americans belong to Mexico (or elsewhere) and we white English speakers all hail King Charles, naturally. Isn’t that how it works?
/sarcasm
I live in NYC and Chinese people have talked about this outpost for quite some time. I’m truly surprised that the FBI raided it though – they don’t usually sh*t where they eat.