The Beijing Question — Elaine Chao, Mitch McConnell’s Hospitalization, and the Meetings Behind Close

[Luis Gonzalez]

The Beijing Question
Elaine Chao, Mitch McConnell’s Hospitalization, and the Meetings Behind Closed Doors

The Last Wire

While Mitch McConnell was hospitalized after a cardiac arrest, his wife, Elaine Chao, was in Beijing meeting China's vice president. It took three weeks and mounting public pressure before her office said anything, and what they said barely explains it.

This isn't even the first Chao family trip to China to draw federal scrutiny. A 2017 delegation drew a Department of Transportation Inspector General investigation for the same basic pattern: family, access, and Beijing, blended under the cover of official business.

• June 12: Chao appears at a Shanghai Jiao Tong University event, two days before McConnell's hospitalization
• June 14: McConnell hospitalized after an apparent cardiac arrest
• June 17: Chao meets Chinese Vice President Han Zheng in Beijing
• July 7: Chao returns to the U.S., after three weeks of silence from her office

Full piece, timeline, and sourcing at The Last Wire. The Beijing Question

[DefiantMassRINO]

If I was on life support, my wife would immediately come ... to pull the plug and collect the life insurance money.

At this time, there are only (2) reasons to not allow Mitch McConnell to be declared legally dead ... political and financial.  The legal declaration of death is the demise of the current poltical paradigm, which leaves room for new, unknown political paradigms to emerge.

Man's greatest fear is the fear of the unknown.  As long as Mitch is legally alive, interested parties can defer having to confront the unknown in public.  They may already be wrestling with unknowns out of public sight.

[Canuck Conservative]

Plus, with McConnell not available to vote BUT not declared incapacitated yet, it usefully removes one Senate vote that Trump might need

Beijing's way of tying Trump down!

(Don't tell me they aren't deliberately coordinating things this way ... my question is, why are the voters of Kentucky even putting up with this fraud??)

[Cyber Liberty]

So many questions, even fewer answers that don't answer any of the questions,  leaving us (the public) mystified.  Typical DeeCee bullshit while the clock runs out for a special Election that nobody important wants.

The story of Turtle's life, ending not with a bang, but with a whimper.  How fitting.  Instead of wondering if a former Senate Majority Leader is still corporeal, we're left wondering what his wife was doing in China.

[Lando Lincoln]

I think we are clueless about what takes place in the shadows.  Even when things like this rise to the surface, we are left guessing as to why or what it means.

[Sighlass]

A lawyer wife with access to the most political sensitive info in the world traveling to China under closed doors... what could go wrong ??

I don't doubt Mitch even instructed her to play the game out despite what condition he was in.

[mountaineer]

I don't doubt Mitch even instructed her to play the game out despite what condition he was in.

It's been going on throughout their marriage.  As I recall, her family has financial (not just ethnic) ties to China, and they've done quite well.

[corbe]

   Gotta wonder what Mitch had on Trump to appoint his ol lady as Secretary of Labor/Secretary of Transportation.  Perhaps the same shoddy negotiations he had with the RNC that brought Prebus as CoS and Pence as VP   

[Right_in_Virginia]

   Gotta wonder what Mitch had on Trump to appoint his ol lady as Secretary of Labor/Secretary of Transportation.

Chao has been a Republican darling since 1983 @corbe

Reagan Administration:  Chao began her public service career in 1983  --- as °a White House Fellow, was promoted to °Deputy Maritime Administrator at the Department of Transportation and then served as °Chair of the Federal Maritime Commission.

Bush I administration: Chao served as Deputy Secretary of Transportation from 1989 -- 1991
Bush I administration: Chao served as Director of the Peace Corps from 1991 -- 1992

Bush II appointed Chao Secretary of Labor serving from 2001 -- 2009.  Chao was the longest serving Secretary of Labor in 56 years.

Trump45:  Chao served as Secretary of Transportation from 2017 -- 2021.

[Right_in_Virginia]

I'd like to see the file on this ....

°Foremost Group:   Founded by patriarch James S.C. Chao in 1964, the New York-based Foremost Group operates a massive global fleet of dry bulk carrier ships valued at more than $1.2 billion.

The New York-based international shipping company founded by Chao's father, James S. C. Chao, builds almost all of its ships in Chinese state-owned shipyards. The company receives Chinese government loans and ships over 70% of its freight (primarily iron ore) to China.

[Luis Gonzalez]

I'd like to see the file on this ....

°Foremost Group:   Founded by patriarch James S.C. Chao in 1964, the New York-based Foremost Group operates a massive global fleet of dry bulk carrier ships valued at more than $1.2 billion.

The New York-based international shipping company founded by Chao's father, James S. C. Chao, builds almost all of its ships in Chinese state-owned shipyards. The company receives Chinese government loans and ships over 70% of its freight (primarily iron ore) to China.

Foremost is huge.

[Luis Gonzalez]

So many questions, even fewer answers that don't answer any of the questions,  leaving us (the public) mystified.  Typical DeeCee bullshit while the clock runs out for a special Election that nobody important wants.

The story of Turtle's life, ending not with a bang, but with a whimper.  How fitting.  Instead of wondering if a former Senate Majority Leader is still corporeal, we're left wondering what his wife was doing in China.

I dug too.

Found some stuff on the dark web, but nothing that MTG hadn’t already shouted to anyone within earshot.