Lest we forget:
Not only is the US Secretary of Commerce of Chinese descent, so is the Secretary of Labor, Elaine Chao, who was named to her post during the Bush Administration. Ms. Chao is said to be on very friendly terms with the current President of China, Jiang Zemin, who was a college classmate of her father, James S.C. Chao. Ms. Chao is married to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky).
Bush's Labor nominee 'family friend' of Jiang Zemin
By Jon Dougherty (Published in 2001)
http://tinyurl.com/yhcedvc - World Net Daily
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Elaine Chao biography (Wikipedia)
The eldest of six daughters, Chao was born in Taipei, Taiwan, to James S.C. Chao (Zhào Xīchéng), a powerful and well-connected Shanghainese entrepreneur, and Ruth Mu-lan Chu ( Zhū Mùlán), a historian. She attended Tsai Hsing Elementary School in kindergarten and first grade. Her parents had fled to Taiwan from mainland China after the Chinese Communists took over as a result of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. After her father settled in the U.S. and established himself in the shipping business, Chao came to the U.S. at age eight. Chao's father started Foremost Shipping Corp in 1964 and capitalized on exponential growth in trade with China. She attended Syosset High School, an affluent public school in Long Island, New York.
Chao received her B.A. in economics from Mount Holyoke College in 1975 and her MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1979. Chao also studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College, and Columbia University.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Chao
Chen talks with HSBC & Foremost
Foreign Affairs Office of Shanghai Municipality
At noon on January 5, Chen Liangyu, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the municipal Party, warmly welcomed Stephen Green, executive president from HSBC, and Chinese American James Chao, board chairman of the Foremost Shipping Co. at the Shanghai Radisson Plaza.
Green and Chao were attending a ceremony to transfer ownership of a 175,000 DWT cargo vessel built by the Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co., a subsidiary of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation.
Chen first acknowledged the long-term support of the two companies for the local shipping industry and for economic development.
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