EXCLUSIVE: US General Plotted With CCP-Tied Mogul To Seize Strategic Islands For China, Tell-All Claims
A Chinese intelligence official’s autobiography details decades of efforts to cultivate ties with American officials,culminating in an alleged plot with a three-star U.S. general to annex strategic territory for Beijing, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.
Chinese-American businessman Eugene Ji, who owns two golf courses flanking Louisiana’s Barksdale Air Force Base, developed a years-long professional and personal relationship with retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, which allegedly included expensive gifts and meetings with high-ranking Chinese governmentofficials, according to DCNF translations of Chinese government announcements and Ji’s 2014 Chinese language autobiography “New Circle.” Among other concerning episodes, the autobiography claims the pair organized an event to bring Chinese military officers to a U.S. nuclear base and also repeatedly propositioned Chinese political insiders with a half a billion dollar plan to seize Japan’s Senkaku Islands for China through weaponized migration, which the general denies.
“When I asked his opinion on the matter of the [Senkaku Islands], the general said those few small islands are of course Chinese territory — why keep talking without acting? No need to consult Japan. If pigs can be raised on the islands, set up a pig farm. If tourism is possible, build dozens of houses. Sovereignty is China’s. Welcome tourists from around the world. Japanese can go too, just get a visa at the Chinese embassy in Japan, so what’s the hang-up?” Ji wrote, according to a DCNF translation of the autobiography. “Do your friends think the price is too high?”
Honoré, who retired in 2008, allegedly served as the “U.S. affairs advisor” for an organization founded by Ji called the G2 Club, which has offices in the U.S. and China, and is comprised of business leaders and government officials from both nations, according to DCNF translations of “New Circle.”
Honoré, who coordinated military relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina and later led then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s security review task force following the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, denied involvement in the Senkaku scheme and told the DCNF that Ji is “full of shit.” However, he did not deny being pictured with the businessman in multiple photos featured in “New Circle” and in Chinese government announcements unearthed by the DCNF.
https://dailycaller.com/2026/01/19/exclusive-us-general-plotte-ccp-tied-mogul-strategic-islands-china-tell-all-claims/