JiaQi Bao was a graduate of Tsinghua University who claimed to be working at Hong Kong finance firms before she went to work for Hunter at his partner's request as a clerk and a translator.
The NDRC is the Constituent Departments of the State Council (think a Cabinet department ala State or Defense) tasked with managing the Chinese economy at the macroeconomic level.
He Lifeng has been the Minister in charge of the NDRC since 2017, and is a member of the New Zhijiang Army - a subclique within Xi’s Tsinghua Clique comprised of provincial leaders who helped Xi advance to his current position as Chairman of the People’s Republic of China.
One of the key roles of the NDRC is managing the supply of Chinese energy, especially coal and oil.
This is vital for Chinese national security, as China imports 80% of their oil from the Middle East and 57% of coal came from Australia.
China has already boycotted Australian coal in favor of less efficient and far worse polluting coal from Inner Mongolia, which presents a serious water issue for the already water-strapped North half of China.
The sourcing of oil from the Middle East is even worse from a security perspective, however, because of the chokepoint at the Strait of Malacca.
China recognizes this vulnerability and has decided to begin building pipelines to Russia and Iran to bypass as much of the threat of Indian Navy and Royal Australian Navy from blockading the straits.
And so we now have evidence that in addition to helping CEFC bribe officials in Senegal and Uganda into inviting China in to bankrupt their countries, Hunter Biden was helping China gain the leverage they needed over Russia to turn Putin into their client state.
This deal would go a long way to securing a portion of China's oil supply by routing it through the emptiness of Russia.
So congrats, Hunter. There's a decent Chance you helped Xi convince Putin to invade Ukraine.
Some background info on CEFC can be found below. I've been talking about Hunter's connections to this State-Owned Enterprise for a while now.
Meet Ye Jianming. He is the founder of CEFC, and is currently in jail in China for corruption.
For years, Jianming claimed descent from Ye Jianying. Jianying was one of the Ten Founding Marshals of the People’s Liberation Army and a key figure in overthrowing the Gang of Four during the final years of Mao's life.
After Mao’s death, Jianying was a key support of Deng.
If true, this made Jianming a Princeling of the PLA, a position of extreme hereditary privilege within the PRC generally and the CCP in particular.
Little information on the origin of CEFC China Energy is available in Western sources. What little we know claims Jianming was a forestry worker in the 1990's who some how managed to turn that job into a billion dollar energy firm.
In spite of his rapidly advancing wealth within China and his actions in Africa, no one in the West had heard about him until Milos Zeman replaced Vaclav Havel as President of the Czech Republic.
Viewed as being more friendly towards China, Zeman soon found himself getting propositions from CEFC for BRI investments in his country.
The investment choices were weird.
Why would an energy firm in China want to buy a brewery and a television network in Eastern Europe?
Eventually, Jianming was actually named one of Zeman's economic advisors. Information which was kept from the Czech Parliament for months.
And something which raised red flags with the opposition.
At this same time, Jianming was working with a PLA admiral (name unknown, but widely believed to be a staff officer) to secure recognition of an NGO he was setting up with the UN.
Officially meant to be a think-tank on energy issues which could advise the UN, the NGO quickly turned into a Belt and Road Initiative cheerleader which weirded people out for how aggressively pro-China the organization was.
At every point, CEFC billed itself as a State-Owned Enterprise doing business on behalf of the Chinese government, investing in developing countries and Eastern Europe.
Think the British East India Company, with Chinese characteristics.
In 2017, CEFC drew the attention of the world when they set up a deal with Russian oil giant Rosfnet.
This is the deal Hunter and his firm, Hudson West, helped broker.
CEFC obtained a 14% share of the State-Owned oil firm Rosfnet.
At which point the US Government began a thorough examination of their business practices.
CEFC had been engaged in bribery in Uganda, Chad, Senegal, Libya, and Qatar. Caixian, a Chinese financial news firm, found a network of false transactions between firms with no official connection to CEFC which were designed to inflate the value of the firm.
There were even implications the firm was preparing to engage in gun smuggling to support militant groups in Libya and Qatar.
And the latest voice-mails discovered on the laptop Hunter Biden abandoned at a computer repair shop indicates Joe Biden knew what his son was doing.
CO2 output from Campi Flegrei has increased from 1500 tons of CO2 per day in 2017 to 3500 tons per day in 2024 to 5000 tons of CO2 per day right now.
This is akin to an open caldera volcano with magma exposed to the air but no eruption ongoing.
Earthquake numbers in February (1101) were five times what they were in January (210) with characteristics of a tunnel with pressurized fluids fracturing rock.
The main portion of the earthquake swarm was roughly 800 quakes in a one week period. A geophysicist I saw indicated the depth () and frequency was what indicated it was a fracturing event caused by peessurized fluids breaking through rock.
You know how I keep saying there is something simmering away under the surface in China, and that all the weirdness we've seen lately is evidence of it?
Xi Jinping's mentor, Jia Qinglin, and the entire Jia family are now under investigation for corruption.
Jia is the former "King of Fujian", and amassed a fortune on par with a small country thanks to the way corruption funnels wealth up the patron-client network in China.
This includes Xi, who was handpicked by Jia for advancement while Xi was working in the Party apparatus there.
While it is possible Xi's meteoric rise through the ranks of the Party apparatus was purely based on merit, this is HIGHLY unlikely. You don't get to be the Deputy Party Secretary of a Provincial Party without someone in high places pulling strings on your behalf.
Oh for fucks sake, the Rwandan invasion of the DRC has put the biolab at Goma at risk.
That biolab is the central hub for Ebola research
There are reports of Congolese looting and plundering the Rwandan and Ugandan embassies in Kinshasa before they set the embassies ablaze, and of attempts to enter the embassies of Kenya, France, and the US in protest over a lack of international response.
The only order we have from Hitler outright ordering a massacre was the Aktion T4 memo, and Hitler had to be coerced into issuing it because the German people had caught wind of his massacre of the invalid and the doctors were afraid of legel prosecution.