“On the Holmes Front,” with Frank Holmes
Former Secretary of State John Kerry may not be popular, but there is no denying that he’s got a head for numbers.
He was smart enough to marry an incredibly wealthy woman and live off her fortune. And he’s used the wealth they’ve accumulated to invest in even more profitable ventures — and one of those seems to be a Chinese company that profits off slave labor.
Kerry has invested at least $1 million in Hillhouse China Value Fund, L.P. Last December, Hillhouse became the second-largest investor in a Chinese company named LONGi Green Energy.
For the Biden administration’s “climate envoy” to own green energy stock gives the appearance of a conflict of interest in itself…but there’s so much more to the story.
Through Hillhouse, Kerry owns a piece of LONGi, which builds solar panels… with raw materials that come from slave labor performed by China’s Uyghur population.
LONGi has ongoing business relationships with two companies — GCL-Poly and Daqo — that the Biden administration’s Commerce Department blacklisted in June for “participating in the practice of, accepting, or utilizing forced labor involving Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups.”
China has had a long practice of rounding up its Uyghur Muslims and shipping them to “reeducation centers” in Xinjiang. The media have described the remote Chinese province as an “open air concentration camp” for 1 million Uyghur Muslims. The United Nations describes the enormous prison complex as a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy.”
But that secrecy is starting to end, thanks to the testimony of people who have made their way to freedom. A guard at one of the camps recently told CNN how he would regularly beat children in the camps as young as 14 years old.
One of the inmates, 48-year-old Uighur scholar Abduweli Ayup, described how mass rapes were used to torture inmates. When Ayup was arrested for trying to teach Uyghur children in their own language in 2013, he said Chinese guards ordered a dozen other inmates to brutally rape him his first night in jail.
“They told me to bend over. I begged them to stop,” he said, but the mass rapes continued.
China says it’s keeping the Muslims there, teaching them Mandarin, and giving them “vocational education” — which is a cute way of describing slave labor.
But China sometimes ships Uyghurs out of the province to factories all over China, to work for free.
Now we know, they’re working for Kerry — and Kerry seems to be doing all he can to avoid having the Chinese products hit with U.S. sanctions.
Just last month, Kerry claimed poor Red China was the victim of contradictory U.S. policies, saying, “On the one hand, we’re saying to [China], ‘You have to do more to help deal with the climate.’ And on the other hand, their solar panels are being sanctioned, which makes it harder for them to sell them.”
Pressure has continued for the world’s civilized countries to have nothing to do with the human rights violators. Protesters have gathered in Paris to demand that the European Union ban all products created by Chinese Uyghur’s slave labor.
But a member of European Parliament said the biggest opponents to sanctions against China for its human rights abuses, including the torture and genocide of its Muslim population, are wealthy Western countries (and their investors).
“The strongest embassies for the Chinese Community Party today are the big European companies that have interests in China because China is essential for their production and essential as a market,” said Member of European Parliament Raphaël Glucksman.
It sounds like that includes John Kerry.
“John Kerry appears to have profited from a company tied to egregious human rights abuses in Xinjiang. Now it makes sense why he is actively working against my Uyghur Forced Labor Act,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R–Fla., told the Washington Free Beacon. “But this is bigger than Kerry. A climate deal cannot make our nation complicit to the Chinese Communist Party’s slave labor practices.”
When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris say their administration is focused on human rights, remember that they appointed a has-been liberal who appears to be using his position to profit off the backs of imprisoned, tortured, raped, and trafficked Uyghurs.
Frank Holmes is a reporter for The Horn News. He is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”