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Angela Chao, sister of Elaine Chao (spouse of retired Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican Senate Minority Chief), died in her automobile on February 11, 2024. Angela was discovered unconscious in a submerged automobile; first responders tried to revive her, however had been unsuccessful. The pond was on a farm close to Johnson Metropolis in Blanco County, Texas, about 40 miles west of Austin. The farm was reportedly owned by a enterprise unit of Chao's husband, Jim Breyer, a enterprise capitalist who has an workplace in Austin.
The sheriff of Blanco County is Don Jackson, and the case is now thought of a prison investigation, which prevents many particulars from being launched to the general public. In a letter to Texas Legal professional Common, Ken Paxton, Sheriff Jackson mentioned, “This incident was no peculiar accident.”
Angela Chao was additionally Chairman and Chief Government Officer of Foremost Group, a privately held enterprise entity that was the most important US proprietor of bulk delivery service provider vessels (all vessels had been flagged in different nations). The ships alone had been valued at $1.2 billion 5 years in the past, however Foremost Group's different actions, as a result of it was privately held, should not totally identified. Energy, wealth, worldwide relations, privately held enterprise teams, China, Taiwan, US; This story has many offshoots and sequels and a prison investigation is now underway.
China is just not price investing in?
Jim Breyer seems to be an inspiring and transformative determine within the globalist world. He was the proprietor of the Boston Celtics, a part of the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation, which has deep ties to China. Just lately on the Davos Discussion board (January 18, 2024), he was requested by Forbes interviewer Lisa Abramowicz about investing in China, which he mentioned was not “investable”. Jim's response was attention-grabbing (4:47) “I by no means thought of China price investing in…”. He then provides, “We’ve got supported many wonderful entrepreneurs through the years who’ve moved to Singapore”. I might say that he’s avoiding criticism of China with this response. It seems he’s speaking about gifted Chinese language residents in China or worldwide expertise leaving China. He goes on and talks about his ardour for quantum computing and Synthetic Intelligence (AI). “All my investments over the past a number of years have been within the US… the place I consider the very best expertise and alternatives are.”
When pressed additional about China, Jim mentioned, “I took an 18-month pause concerning investing in China”. One other inventive response, threading the needle with out straight criticizing China. Lisa then requested Jim if he met the generals at Davos, and sure, after all, our favourite normal, Common Milley, got here out, who Jim talked about he talked to. With all due respect, I don't consider Common Retired would know AI from Home windows 10, however Jim assured Lisa that we’re forward of China – one other demerit for Jim.
From the Chinese language Social Credit score rating of Jim's feedback, he’s most likely within the unfavorable numbers as a result of his Chinese language safety case officers overview his feedback and don’t take into account them good for Jim. There are numerous coded parts in Jim's statements. His feedback belie a far greater subject than the straightforward expulsion of capital from China that’s creating an outbound torrent, however the actuality is evident to anybody doing enterprise in China, issues are going south and now. It's time to get out bodily. China is turning into fairly aggressive in blocking the departure of non-Chinese language residents who’re making an attempt to depart China. Even earlier than Angela Chao handed away, I'd seen Jim's coded reactions. Now {that a} prison investigation is underway, his Davos statements must be famous and tagged as displays. Jim's funding agency, IDG Capital Companions, has been recognized as a Chinese language Communist Celebration army firm, which is sort of important.
The Chao household has deep ties to Taiwan
The story of the Chao household's rise to wealth is a bit uncommon for households fleeing the Communist takeover of the mainland in 1949. The daddy, Dr. James SC Chao, was at sea as a junior officer on a Chinese language ship certain for Taiwan. James moved to New York in 1958 and returned to Taiwan in 1964 and opened Foremost Transport. The CIA enabled parallel analogs of Foremost, resembling Civil Air Transport (which advanced into the extra well-known Air America) and maybe certainly one of Foremost's rivals, Evergreen Transport, which was associated to one of many historic CIA-owned airways, Evergreen Airways. It’s doable Does this imply Foremost had ties to the CIA? The truth was that on the time, within the Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties, there was an intensive CIA footprint within the Republic of China (Taiwan) and virtually each delivery line and airline had some type of CIA touchpoint. Foremost and Dr. Chao very possible had KMT connections and KMT funding to construct Foremost. The KMT was based and led by Chiang Kai-shek, the chief of Nationalist China, who led the return to Taiwan to determine the Republic of China. And if there have been KMT connections there was not less than a direct reference to the CIA.
Foremost (and Evergreen) grew to become profitable enterprises lengthy earlier than the CIA's glory days of the Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties. James and his spouse Ruth had six kids and Angela grew to become CEO and chair of the board of the main privately held group. His record of achievements is lengthy. Notably, she was on the board of the Financial institution of China, which was initially the financial institution of document for Nationalist China and the KMT, however is now fully within the arms of the Chinese language Communist Celebration. Angela was additionally on the board of China State Shipbuilding Company, which is on the identical Protection Division blacklist as her husband's funding firm. There are some very deep connections between Jim, Angela, and the CCP's lethal exercise.
Tesla connection?
The Tesla reference to Angela Chao's demise is a possible treasure trove of forensic information for investigators. Tesla is closely concerned with the CCP and battery uncommon earth metals have a big footprint in China in addition to information flows from Tesla information facilities and all Tesla automobiles world wide. Years in the past we studied distant entry to automobiles and with out internet-connected actuators for the steering wheel, accelerator, brakes and different options within the automobile, it was onerous to do a lot besides flip the air-con on and off, which was very annoying. Perhaps, however nothing else. On the time there was no IT reference to key parts of auto management – with Tesla, there’s. Distant entry and operation of those important automobile controls is throughout the world of the doable for a Tesla automobile, however there’s additionally more likely to be a path of cyber proof with system logs.
An attention-grabbing discovering is that in January, a publicly listed group known as “Foremost Lithium” gained entry to lithium deposits in Canada. Is Foremost Lithium related to Foremost Group? I couldn't discover any connection, but it surely's a phenomenon with an attention-grabbing identify. Entry to lithium in Canada can be nice for electrical automobile batteries. Australia and Chile produce many of the lithium, however for some cause Tesla makes use of the China-based lithium provide chain.
What does all this imply? China has many connections to Angela Chao and Jim Breyer. At Davos, it actually appeared as if he was avoiding China by praising everybody else besides China. The presence of his firm within the DoD record can also be fairly worrying. Hopefully the Blanco County Sheriff and the Texas Legal professional Common can clearly reveal the reality earlier than the FBI is available in to cowl every little thing up.