https://www.ned.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/New-Invisible-Hand-Authoritarian-Corrosive-Capital-Repurposing-Democracy-Hala.pdf
Already in 2011, CEFC’s eponymous nonprofit wing, also chaired by Ye and administered by former
Hong Kong home secretary Patrick Ho as secretary general, had received special consultative status
with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), an international body dedicated to sustainable
development.25 The CEFC think tank specialized in promoting the BRI as a new, more equitable form
of globalization and economic development that was free of Western domination.
The formal affiliation with ECOSOC facilitated networking at the UN. In 2015, Ye became honorary
adviser to both UN General Assembly president Sam Kutesa26 and Czech president Miloš Zeman.27
Meanwhile, Ho traveled the conference circuit and published articles praising the BRI, meeting
with a plethora of foreign think tankers and public figures. In November 2017, CEFC cosponsored
a new Institute of the Belt and Road and Global Governance,28 located in Shanghai at Fudan, one of
China's top universities
Just a few days later, Ho was arrested in New York and indicted for extensive political corruption in
Africa and at the UN.29 Specifically, he was accused of bribing Chadian president Idriss Déby and
Sam Kutesa, who was also the foreign minister of Uganda, to secure oil rights and other privileges
in their countries. He was convicted in November 2018 and sentenced to prison in March 2019.30
During the trial, the prosecution presented documentary evidence that Ho was acting with full
knowledge of the CEFC chairman.31
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/10/19/emails-hunter-biden-cut-deals-shady-now-defunct-house-cards-chinese-company/
Some of the emails the New York Post obtained from Hunter Biden’s laptop last week illuminate the ties between the son of Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden and a bankrupt Chinese energy company called CEFC China Energy.