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Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao Jets to Beijing to Meet Top CCP Official Just 3 Days After Mitch McConnell’s Cardiac Arrest Hospitalization – China Ties Under Fire Again
Gateway Pundit ^ | 07/04/2026 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 07/04/2026 9:42:30 AM PDT by DFG

Former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao flew to Beijing on June 17, 2026, for a cozy meeting with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng, just three days after her husband, Senator Mitch McConnell, was rushed to the hospital following a reported cardiac arrest at their Washington, D.C. home.

Emergency dispatch audio obtained by multiple outlets captured the chaos on June 14: paramedics responded to a “cardiac arrest” call at McConnell’s Capitol Hill residence, with reports of CPR in progress and the 84-year-old senator found unconscious. McConnell was hospitalized that same morning.

His office has offered only vague updates, claiming his condition “continues to improve” and he is receiving “excellent care.” Details about the severity of the incident and his long-term prognosis remain scarce.

While McConnell fought for his life in a hospital bed, his wife was in Beijing schmoozing with the Chinese Communist Party.

During the June 17 meeting, Vice President Han Zheng urged stronger China-U.S. ties and referenced a “new vision of a constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability.” Elaine Chao replied that stable relations “serve the interests of both countries” and pledged to promote “practical cooperation and people-to-people exchanges.”

This is the same Elaine Chao whose family’s shipping empire, Foremost Group, has deep, lucrative ties to Communist China, including major financing from Beijing-linked banks.

Past reporting documented how the Chao family prospered as their business expanded under CCP industrial policies. During her time in the Trump administration, ethics questions arose over attempts to blend official travel with family business interests in China. President Trump himself called her out in 2022, labeling her “crazy” and accusing her and her family of trying to “get rich on China.”

Chao resigned from the Trump Cabinet after January 6, 2021, citing being “deeply troubled.” Now she is voluntarily meeting senior CCP officials while her husband recovers from a cardiac emergency.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: china; crimecorruption; elainechao; hanzheng; mitchmcconnell; republicancorruption

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1 posted on 07/04/2026 9:42:30 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

https://us.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/zmgx/zxxx/202607/t20260702_11956191.htm


2 posted on 07/04/2026 9:42:41 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Mitch is dying so his handler and the CCP no longer have to pretend anymore.


3 posted on 07/04/2026 9:44:11 AM PDT by ChuckHam
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To: ChuckHam

I always thought it very strange that an absolutely beautiful woman whose family was extremely wealthy due to their shipping companies, with first Taiwan and then with the Communist Chinese also, would “fall in love with” an extremely unattractive, mealy mouthed creepy man.

I’m sure it had nothing to do with his being a powerful US senator. /s


4 posted on 07/04/2026 9:48:14 AM PDT by Freee-dame (The left never dreamed that Trump would be back in the White House in 2025. )
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To: DFG

The CCP has done nothing but try to destabilize. The article says that China is seeking to Find a strategic stability. What bunk!


5 posted on 07/04/2026 9:49:19 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: ChuckHam

True.


6 posted on 07/04/2026 9:49:46 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization? )
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To: DFG

So isn’t there some special thing one has to do to get permission to meet with foreign dignitaries prior to meeting,
or a IRS thingy? Didn’t they get Gen Flynn on it but at the same time let Podesta brothers correct and refill the IRS form?


7 posted on 07/04/2026 9:51:24 AM PDT by blueyon (God, is who we need)
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To: DFG

Elaine is wisely getting her affairs in order.
Time is of the essence.


8 posted on 07/04/2026 9:55:29 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: DFG

“You won’t stop sending us cash after he dies? Will you?”


9 posted on 07/04/2026 10:00:17 AM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: DFG

Must be too important to just have Beijing’s instructions delivered through her handler.


10 posted on 07/04/2026 10:01:02 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: DFG
Bad news for China.

China Joe is out of the presidency and China Mitch is soon to be a thing of the past

People are catching on the China's influence buying scams and an entire generation of UniParty politicians who have been de facto agents of foreign interests are feeling the heat.

11 posted on 07/04/2026 10:09:05 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead)
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To: DFG

They must be discussing her next target to acquire.


12 posted on 07/04/2026 10:09:57 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: DFG

“President Trump himself called her out in 2022, labeling her “crazy” and accusing her and her family of trying to “get rich on China.” Didn’t Trump also refer to her as “Coco Chow”?


13 posted on 07/04/2026 10:10:26 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys. P. J. O'Rourk)
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To: DFG

She’s going to run for office as a grieving widow


14 posted on 07/04/2026 10:13:38 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowit)
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To: Migraine

To China, “ strategic stability” does not mean what America thinks it means…

Like the absence of military conflict means “peace”


15 posted on 07/04/2026 10:15:48 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowit)
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To: silverleaf

I would not be surprised if GovBeshear & Thune arrange/appoint her to replace McTurtle.


16 posted on 07/04/2026 10:16:27 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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Ding ding ding
And for her assured opposition to Trump


17 posted on 07/04/2026 10:20:56 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowit)
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To: newfreep

Kentucky Gov Beshear cannot appointment McConnell’s successor. State law was changed in 2024 to require a special election.


18 posted on 07/04/2026 10:24:03 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

So much for sitting at hubby’s bedside. 😉


19 posted on 07/04/2026 10:32:33 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: DFG

Hmm. Discussing which honey pot to attach to bachelor Lindsay Graham?


20 posted on 07/04/2026 10:41:42 AM PDT by Kudsman (John (no can do) Thune. Where ya at John? We need you John. Send help John . Send up a flare John!)
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