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Maybe we can give Xi some part-time cabinet job.

It’s a British bank that got its start financing the opium trade. IIRC, execs have almost always been Scotsmen, like a good chunk of the British commercial presence in Hong Kong:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC#Origins_and_until_2000
[The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank was founded by Thomas Sutherland in the then-British colony of British Hong Kong on 3 March 1865, and in Shanghai a month later, benefiting from the start of trading into China, including opium trading.[17] It was formally incorporated as The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation by an Ordinance of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong on 14 August 1866.[2] In 1980, HSBC acquired a 51% shareholding in US-based Marine Midland Bank, which it extended to full ownership in 1987. On 6 October 1989, it was renamed by the Legislative Council, by an amendment to its governing ordinance originally made in 1929, to The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, and became registered as a regulated bank with the then Banking Commissioner of the Government of Hong Kong.[18]

HSBC Holdings plc, originally incorporated in England and Wales,[19] was a non-trading, dormant shelf company when it completed its transformation on 25 March 1991[3] into the parent holding company to the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited now as a subsidiary, in preparation for its purchase of the UK-based Midland Bank and the impending transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong to China. HSBC Holdings’ acquisition of Midland Bank was completed in 1992 and gave HSBC a substantial market presence in the United Kingdom. As part of the takeover conditions for the acquisition, HSBC Holdings plc was required to relocate its world headquarters from Hong Kong to London in 1993.[20]

Major acquisitions in South America started with the purchase of the Banco Bamerindus of Brazil for $1 billion in March 1997[21] and the acquisition of Roberts SA de Inversiones of Argentina for $600 million in May 1997.[22] In May 1999, HSBC expanded its presence in the United States with the purchase of Republic National Bank of New York for $10.3 billion.[23] ]

Ping!

“worked as the vice president of Commercial Financing for the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation.”

Literally started as a dope bank. Also gave us Comey. Caught laundering money in very recent times.

Do we now only hire traitors? !