How One Family Built a Bridge Between Beijing and Washington
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It began in a Shanghai college dormitory in 1946, where two young students formed a friendship that would quietly shape the future of one of America’s most powerful political families.
Decades later, that friendship reached from Beijing’s inner circle to the halls of Washington. Chinese state-owned shipyards built the vessels. Chinese banks helped finance them. The Chao family fortune grew, while Elaine Chao and Mitch McConnell rose to the highest levels of American power.
Was it simply business, family loyalty, and old connections—or something much more consequential?
This is the hidden story of the Chao–McConnell empire, and the bridge one family built between Beijing and Washington.
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