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chyna turtle should be at the top of the list.
)Anon has posted about "One Belt/Road Initiave" but can't find post now.)
Turtle in the middle of everything chyna:
Closer Chinese financial ties for the benefit of one of America's most powerful political families also occurred in 2018 amid an aggressive push by Beijing for infrastructure deals around the globe. These deals are part of the strategic "One Belt, One Road" (OBOR) initiative, a massive plan to expand China's influence across Asia and Africa.
Mitch McConnell and his wife, Elaine Chao, have operated for decades at the highest levels of American government. As the Senate Republican leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has long been a part of the power elite.
In the past dozen years, McConnell's and Chao's wealth has grown dramatically. In 2004, the couple was worth an average of $3.1 million, according to their required financial disclosures. Ten years later, they had a net worth of between $9.2 million and $36.5 million. The key to that growth was a 2008 gift from Chao's father, James, who immigrated from China to continue his education in 1958, then brought his wife and three young daughters, including Elaine, to join him in 1961.
The Chao family's fortune comes from their ownership of the Foremost Group, a shipping firm founded in 1964 and still run by her father and her youngest sister, Christine. "Shipping is our family tradition," Elaine Chao said in a speech at National Taiwan Ocean University in 2016.
The source of this money is China. The Foremost Group operates bulk shipping vessels built in China and which primarily operate under the watchful eye of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) , and through contracts with it. The Chaos operate through agreements with the CCP and their business depends on these agreements to thrive. https://archive.is/wip/MyhYq
https://rightedition.com/2018/05/02/peter-schweizer-mitch-mcconnells-deep-financial-ties-to-china-unprecedented-in-u-s-history/
(Peter) Schweizer warned that deep financial ties between the American political class and Beijing are particularly dangerous at a time when our national security apparatus has identified Communist China as the greatest long-term threat faced by the United States.
“It gets even worse because James Chao – that would be Elaine Chao’s father – and her sister Angela Chao a couple of years ago served on the board of directors of a Chinese company called CSSC Holdings. ‘CSSC’ stands for China State Shipbuilding Corporation. This is the financial arm of one of the largest military contractors in Beijing,” he said.
“When the Pentagon talks about the fact that China is a rising military power, they are talking about, in part, the China State Shipbuilding Corporation,” he elaborated. “They build a lot of the navy ships that the Chinese navy is building to challenge U.S. naval supremacy.
According to current projections by the Naval Academy and other outlets, they believe by 2030 if current trends continue that the Chinese navy will surpass the U.S. Navy as the preeminent naval power. A central player in that is the China State Shipbuilding Corporation, of which Elaine Chao’s sister and father served on the board of directors.”
Schweizer also referenced China’s massive “One Belt, One Road” infrastructure project, which stretches across the developing world and includes naval facilities, roads, and other resources of interest to the Chinese military. Both the Obama and Trump administrations agree that One Belt, One Road represents a “geostrategic challenge to the United States and the Western allies.”
“Elaine Chao’s sister Angela Chao has been on record saying One Belt, One Road is a wonderful thing,” he noted. “That yes, it’s going to be good for China, but it’s also going to be good for the developing world. She explicitly says, ‘I want to be part of seeing this be a successful Chinese initiative.’”
“The problems don’t begin and end with the financial ties to the shipbuilding corporation. It goes far deeper than that. This is a very serious challenge to our strategic balance with the Chinese government,” he cautioned.
Schweizer pointed out that McConnell has not attempted to refute the facts of his family’s commercial ties to the Chinese government, but instead insisted those ties will not influence his votes in the Senate. https://archive.is/wip/udADV *
https://rightedition.com/2018/05/02/peter-schweizer-mitch-mcconnells-deep-financial-ties-to-china-unprecedented-in-u-s-history/