The Wah Ching reorganized in Southern California with the leadership of Tony Young and several other original members from San Francisco including Paul, Sunny, Ken, and the Taiwanese Sunny. More and more Wah Chings were being murdered and Wah Ching was run out of San Francisco ever since. Soon, bullets were flying in the streets of Chinatown. Later, they turned into rivals after one of the Wah Ching leaders was gunned down at Purple Onion Restaurant in North Beach, San Francisco, California|North Beach by members of the Wo Hop To, and that triggered a war. At that time Wah Ching and Wo Hop To became partners in crime activities. In the 1990s, a Hong Kong Triad society|Triad called Wo Hop To set foot in San Francisco to take over all Asian organized crime in the United States. The cause of the attack was vandalism by Wah Ching to the graves of several Joe Boy members and a shootout that took place a few months earlier that left one Joe Boy dead and two others wounded. The event took place at the Golden Dragon Restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown. Wah Ching first received widespread media attention because of the 1977 Golden Dragon massacre involving another Chinese gang, the Chung Ching Yee (Joe Boys).

Today in Los Angeles, the Bay Area of California, Vancouver, and the rest of the West Coast of North America there are an estimated 3,000 gang members of Wah Ching and an estimated 1,000 more affiliated with the Wah Ching Gang. Although primarily headquartered in San Francisco, they have developed strong associations with Asian organized crime groups and gang members in Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver, Toronto, Boston, and New York-along with close ties to the Sun Yee On and the 14K Triad in Hong Kong.

During that time, there may have been as many as 200 Wah Ching members and 500 criminal associates in California. During the 1970s and 1980s, the Wah Ching became an organization that controlled most of the criminal vices in San Francisco's Chinatown and Los Angeles' Chinese communities. From its origin in 1966 as a street gang, the Wah Ching has developed into a criminal organization, with alleged multi-international crime connections. The Wah Ching have been described as an organized crime group. The name literally translates to 'Chinese youth', and the group was comprised primarily of immigrant Cantonese people|Cantonese boys from Hong Kong who banded together to combat the American-born Chinese who would often pick on them. Wah Ching (華青, Hanyu Pinyin: Huáqīng, Cantonese language|Cantonese: Wa4 ching1) also known by slang as 'Dub C' is a largely Chinese American street gang that originated in San Francisco's Chinatown, San Francisco|Chinatown in the 1960s.

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