The 2005 PATRIOT Act reauth added (and codified new) caveats used to circumvent long-held…

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The 2005 PATRIOT Act reauth added (and codified new) caveats used to circumvent long-held precedents and interpretations of civil liberties and citizens’ fundamental Rights in the name of “national security.”

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The United Nations was discussing a “Digital Silk Road” since at least 2001, when an agreement was signed as a result of the Tokyo Symposium for Digital Silk Roads, sponsored by UNESCO.|

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The Tokyo Symposium for DSR featured exclusive access to adversaries of the United States, namely the People’s Republic of China and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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NATO had been working toward building a “virtual silk highway” in conjunction with the Soros Foundation as far back as 2002 as well.

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By 2003, the Tokyo Symposium signed on support for the newly democratized nations Iraq and Afghanistan, both historically along the Silk Road (future Belt and Road).

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A 2004 agreement was signed to build and upgrade roads to, “start in Tokyo and terminate in Istanbul, passing though North and South Korea, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Armenia along the way.”

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With perm. re-up of 2005 PATRIOT Act, the USAF published, “A New Direction for China's Defense Industry” on the rise of China and PLA’s capabilities.

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) carried out bulk of PLA’s missile R&D w/ help from Tsinghua Univ.

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Meanwhile in 2005 Ukraine, The U.S. signed a $15 million agreement to partner with Ukraine on managing and developing dangerous pathogens.

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Just before this went through, the NSF and NIH began funding a study for Zhengli Shi with the CAS involving other bats in some different caves in 2004.

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After President Bill Clinton ushered China into the World Trade Organization in 1999, the communist nation began modernizing its own government.

In 1998, the 1st PAGES Meeting was held in London. PAGES was directed at predicting future climate.

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Since UKs 99-yr lease of Hong Kong expired in 1999, the PRC’s top priority was always to integrate with global markets.

The first in the tech sector was a 100-sq mi area called Zongguan Village in NW Beijing, launched in 1998, planned since 1988.

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A formal transition was ordered by the Municipal government, and the Village and Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) reorganized in 1999.

MOST renamed the new development area to “Zhongguan Village Technology Park” in 1999.

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Fmr. MSU Prof. Lionel Ni's “CC&T Technologies” was 49% owner of PRC State-run 3Jet E&S, founded in China 1998.

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3Jet E&S manufactured the EMIP-1 chip that was in all of Konnech’s first products.

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AZKEF is US-based, founded by Zhejiang Univ. alumni, and serves to promote Chinese achievement.

Owner of the Michigan election company Konnech, Eugene Yu, was listed officer with work email from Prudential Financial in 2001.

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Yu worked w Lionel Ni’s PhD. student, Xipeng Xiao thru AZKEF at the time of Konnech’s conception in 2001 (LJ Connection), and shows a wider network in operation.

Xipeng Xiao was Dir. Emeritus of AZKEF while working for IEEE.

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In 2002, AZKEF flew CAS member and Harvard professor Charles Lieber to Zhejiang University for a lecture. Lieber was convicted in 2020 of hiding Chinese dealings and helped the Chinese secure nuclear technologies.

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Eugene Yu and Lionel Ni’s PhD. student, Xipeng Xiao both served on the AZKEF Fundraising Committee together at the time.

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Lionel Ni began his Head Professorship at HK University of Sci. and Tech. (HKUST) in 2002.

HKUST is a partner w Maritime Silk Road Society which includes Hunter's partner Ye Jianming and Jonathan Choi.

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In 1998, the President of CAS urged one of his economic advisors, billionaire seafood tycoon Jonathan Choi to capitalize on his position by “industrializing some scientific research results.”

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Eugene Yu started Konnech w Lionel Ni’s tech, most likely by way of Xipeng Xiao, as Lionel Ni left the U.S. full time for HKUST.

Then, Xipeng Xiao and Eugene Yu flew CAS member Charles Lieber to China for a lecture through AZKEF in 2002.

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CAS moved Eugene Yu’s China-facing operation into its science park in Jinhua City in 2005 called Jinhua Yulian Network Company, or Jinhua Konnech.

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The CAS president’s financial advisor Jonathan Choi funded MSU $5 million in 2005, which inevitably went to Eugene Yu and Konnech to build a Confucius Institute website in 2006.

Choi was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humanities from MSU in 2005.

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By the end of 2006, Lionel Ni was working for:

Xinjiang University

University of Science and Technology of China

Fudan University

Institute of Computing Technology (CAS)

Beihang University

Sun Yat-sen University

Asia University (Taiwan)

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

National Tsinghua University (Taiwan)

South China Institute of Software Engineering (Guangzhou University)

Chinese Academy of Sciences (direct)

WebEx/HKUST Information Technology Institute (HKUST)

National Basic Research Program of China (MOST, 973 Program)

(Jonathan Choi’s) HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School (Guangzhou)

Chinese Ministry of Education (MOE)

and Microsoft Research Asia.

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After a year in business as Jinhua Konnech, the Michigan Konnech began developing their flagship “Pollchief” election platform in 2006.

This was all happening within China’s new science park framework during China’s Tenth “Five-Year Plan.”

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Following the return of Hong Kong to China, China’s acceptance to the WTO, and China’s establishing the economic framework to market their latest technological products, global institutions like the Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Open Society Foundation, IREX, Microsoft, and universities took full advantage of the new influx of capital.

The individuals steering these foundations would also soon be steering government programs and directing billions of dollars of taxpayer resources from appointed positions.

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Paige Alexander was hired by The International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) as a Senior Vice President in 2001.

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IREX hosted, "Silk Road Security Issues: Concerns for the Regional and International Communities" in April...un-ironically, with a Univ. of Michigan prof. and another figure from the group who published the '05 USAF report on PLA.

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Just after 9/11 came the deadline for the IREX China Resident Fellows Program (CRF) which already included a former director for the CAS and required Chinese citizenship, with a preference for candidates without professional experience in the U.S. https://t.co/tqjR1KIVHX

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In 2005, the U.S. State Department started the International Educators Program (IEP) through which IREX partnered with New York City’s Starr Foundation...

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...who gave Yale University $50M in 06 for collaborations with China.

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University of Michigan graduate Rajiv Shah joined the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2001. His work focused on Africa, agriculture, vaccines, and color revolutions.

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The Gates Foundation’s Rajiv Shah was in the Center for Global Development Advance Market Commitment Working Group who published a report in 2005 titled, ”Making Markets for Vaccines.”

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The Gates Foundation published their 2005 annual report which leaned heavily on their vaccine programs in Africa. https://t.co/OWsyuiGU62

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Lionel Ni’s HKUST were a direct partner of Hong Kong Science and Technology Park when Lionel Ni showed up in 2002. The blue and gold lantern emblem is their official logo.

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The HKSTP incubator’s IC (computer chip) design center also opened in 2003.

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By 2006, the park also laid claim to housing names like Nestle, Nissin, and Miracle Foods, and South China Morning Post.

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Lionel Ni and HKUST also happened to land right between global capital markets and the People’s Liberation Army.

HKSTP partnered w Harbin Univ. of Tech., Zhejiang Univ., and Lionel Ni’s HKUST to expand semiconductor intellectual property globally.

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The agreement was announced days before Eugene Yu’s Jinhua Konnech was formally established in Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province.

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Raycom Infotech Park was officially launched in the Zongguan development area in 2001. It housed offices of CASH, Lenovo, Legend Holdings (connected to Sequoia Capital).

Raycom Infotech Park was built by Lenovo Group for CAS and directly linked to China Telecom backbone.

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In 2003, Beijing Telecom d.b.a. China Telecom signed an agreement with a UN subsidiary to provide its Beijing internet access.

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By Christmas of 2003, Bank of China (yep, the same Hunter Biden-Bohai Harvest “Bank of China”), Sony, Hitachi, and China’s civil aviation company, TravelSky had made it onboard at Raycom and into the annual newsletter.

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On October 24, 2005, AMD officially opened its “Greater China” headquarters at Raycom Infotech Park.

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Suppose for a moment the story ended there. It might would seem that the United States’ future leaders had their fingers on the pulse of the Chinese technology market all along. It might would later seem they were moving the market in a direction that inevitably paid their former colleagues abroad.

But the story doesn’t end there. In fact, the larger story really actually just got started.

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Once the new hub was established, the NSF moved in for its share of the pie with its publicly espoused frien-emy.

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In 2004, Silicon Valley Bank Angel Fund had Google in its Angel I and Angel II portfolios.

I - https://t.co/atZdavrUW9

II - https://t.co/Mb8CR95Vys https://t.co/TIhiM2zSX2

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By 2019, Google had an office in Beijing’s own Silicon Valley inside the public-facing “storefront” of the People’s Liberation Army.

But they wouldn’t be the only ones with a shoe in the door.

It would only take one more Five-Year Plan before the US government merged the government hedge fund of USAID with NSF in 2011 and turbocharged global development (among other things).

Read the full article here:
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