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Sun Guangxin
1962

Founder
Xinjiang Guanghui Industry Investment Group
1989

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Guang…
“#Guangxin received his primary education in the Anhui Military School. This was the time of China-Vietnam war, and the military required soldiers. He was selected for the service, and served in the military for a few years. In 1989, he left the army…”

successstory.com/people/sun-gua…
‘Texas bans secretive Chinese billionaire - who spent $110m quietly buying-up land -from setting up 15,000 acre wind farm amid fears turbines could be fitted with spying equipment or used by Chinese government to cripple energy grid’

Sun #Guangxin
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
“… Sun Guangxin…has since 2016 spent an estimated $110 million buying up land in Val Verde County in Texas

Worth an estimated $2.1 billion, according to Forbes, Sun has bought 140,000 acres of Texan land near the U.S.-Mexico border, by Laughlin [AFB]”

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
‘Texas reportedly blocks Chinese billionaire’s wind farm amid hacking fears’

“raised concerns that allowing a foreign company to connect to the Texas power grid could make it vulnerable to attacks — such as the recent hack of the Colonial Pipeline.”

nypost.com/2021/08/12/tex…
“The project includes a 30,000 square foot lodge and private runway, allowing the Chinese to move people and equipment free from federal oversight.

Experts warn the Chinese will be able to monitor and potentially interfere with air traffic at America’s…”
texasborderbusiness.com/why-is-china-b…
“… at America’s largest pilot training facility at Laughlin.

The project gives the Chinese communists a foothold in the Texas power grid.”

Sun #Guangxin
Morning Star Ranch
texasborderbusiness.com/why-is-china-b…
“The increased scrutiny of Chinese companies in America may also lead to more attention on these mining newcomers. Texas recently passed a law that prevents ‘hostile foreign actors’ from accessing critical infrastructure, including its power grid. …”

bbc.com/news/world-us-…
“… The new law was reportedly prompted by a Chinese billionaire's plan to build a wind farm in southwest Texas. Critics allege that the project could be used to hack into the Texas energy grid and to gather intelligence from a nearby US military base.”

bbc.com/news/world-us-…
“We know that the Chinese were trying to steal information on the response to Covid and on the test for Covid. When you look at San Antonio, we have an NSA facility, a cyber command here, a number of universities that work with the federal government …”

foxsanantonio.com/news/yami-inve…
“… work with the federal government on intelligence matters. Right now this Chinese wind farm is going through a national security review process that has the FBI involved and the department of energy involved,’ said Hurd.”

Sun #Guangxin
Texas #PowerGrid
foxsanantonio.com/news/yami-inve…
“ERCOT has 3 ties to Mexico & — as an outcome of the ‘Midnight Connection’ battle — it also has two ties to the eastern U.S. grid, tho they do not trigger federal regulation for ERCOT. All can move power commercially as well as be used in emergencies …”

texastribune.org/2011/02/08/tex…
“… A possible sixth interconnection project, in Rusk County, is being studied, and another ambitious proposal, called Tres Amigas, would link the three big U.S. grids together in New Mexico”

Texas #PowerGrid
#NatSec
Sun Guangxin
texastribune.org/2011/02/08/tex…
“Houston-based GH America Energy is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chinese Guanghui Industry Investment Group, which, since 2015, has purchased about 140,000 acres in Val Verde County, Texas. The Xinjiang-based parent company is a massive conglomerate …”

ourcommunitynow.com/news-local/chi…
‘China Takes Big Role in Texas Power-Plant Project’

“Chinese firms will play a larger role than initially anticipated in a $2.5 billion power plant that will seek to generate cleaner electricity from coal in Texas.”

#Sinopec
wsj.com/articles/SB100…
“The companies’ vulnerability to foreign buyers raises the risk that the U.S. might lose control over valuable oil-producing lands in the Permian Basin, a swath of land in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico that helped the country become the …”

foxbusiness.com/markets/texas-…
“Since 2016 Sun’s subsidiary companies have bought about 140,000 acres, with land allocated for the Blue Hills Wind development, a wind farm of 46 turbines, some 700 feet tall, set to plug into the Texas electricity grid.”

Sun #Guangxin
thetimes.co.uk/article/spying…
“The Blue Hills Wind Farm development is a portion of land situated on the Crockett County/Val Verde County line and the planned site for approximately 50 wind turbines. The proposed project is being fronted by GH America Energy, which is owned by …”

reformaustin.org/environment/wi…
“… by Chinese company Guanghui Energy Company, which in turn is part of the Xinjiang Guanghui Industry Investment Group based in Xinjiang, an autonomous region in China. The region has gained international notoriety due to the formation of …”

reformaustin.org/environment/wi…
“… of Chinese Communist Party re-education camps where ethnic Muslim Turkic Uighurs are detained and ‘re-educated.’ …

Blue Hills wouldn’t be the first wind energy facility in the area. The 66-turbine Rocksprings wind farm in Val Verde County went online two years ago.”
“have expressed reasonable concern about GH America’s plans to erect the Blue Hills Wind farm, using some of the tallest onshore turbines in the country on the land it purchased.…

Aside from gathering intelligence on U.S. border security operations …”

foxnews.com/opinion/china-…
“…& plugging into Texas’ critical infrastructure, including its electrical grid, China could use Sun’s wind farm venture as cover to collect intelligence on nearby Laughlin Air Force Base, which is the [USAF]’s premier training facility & graduates hundreds of pilots per year.”

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1960

U.S. Representative (R)
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1st congressional district
Since 2005

At-Large Member
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Master's degrees
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Theology, @FranciscanU of Steubenville

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