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.
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Mitch is dying so his handler and the CCP no longer have to pretend anymore.
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
The CCP has done nothing but try to destabilize. The article says that China is seeking to Find a strategic stability. What bunk!
True.
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?
Elaine is wisely getting her affairs in order.
Time is of the essence.
“You won’t stop sending us cash after he dies? Will you?”
Must be too important to just have Beijing’s instructions delivered through her handler.
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.
They must be discussing her next target to acquire.
“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”?
She’s going to run for office as a grieving widow
To China, “ strategic stability” does not mean what America thinks it means…
Like the absence of military conflict means “peace”
I would not be surprised if GovBeshear & Thune arrange/appoint her to replace McTurtle.
Ding ding ding
And for her assured opposition to Trump
Kentucky Gov Beshear cannot appointment McConnell’s successor. State law was changed in 2024 to require a special election.
So much for sitting at hubby’s bedside. 😉
Hmm. Discussing which honey pot to attach to bachelor Lindsay Graham?
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