China has long operated intricate foreign relations through programs like BRICS and its Belt and Road initiative. Its ability to strike deals with wealthy foreign policymakers to influence and even control Sino-foreign relations is a long-standing strategy.

In my series "The Quiet Invasion," where I dive into the border crisis and special interest foreigners, I covered China's long-standing relationship with Afghanistan. 

During the investigation for my report, I sat down with a former US Special Forces weapons/intelligence specialist, embassy liaison, and project researcher/ analyst/ lead (CPD) who claims as early as 2009, US Special Forces were sent to Afghanistan to protect Chinese mineral mining. 

"China has been there the entire F**** time." 

"I was in Afghanistan in 2009 and 2010, and everything we happened to be running across, every border we happened to be blocking, every operation that we happened to be fighting against, seemed to be protecting their route." 

He explained that he took this suspicious observation to his command, which told him to "write a report and run it up the chain."

He never received a response. 

"I thought it was really strange that far into the game and specifically putting a special forces team down in that area to block a spot that seemed to have nothing except Chinese drillers... ten f**** years of them doing shit in the background, in Afghanistan, with the blessing of whoever the government was that they were pretending to work with at the time, whilst we were dying." 

Is it possible that the U.S. government sent U.S. troops to protect Chinese miners in Afghanistan while American soldiers were dying in combat?

In 2007, the China Metallurgical Group was granted a $3 billion 30-year lease to develop a copper mine in Afghanistan. This was roughly seven years into the U.S.-Afghan war.

While we cannot confirm if the US military was given orders to directly or indirectly protect the routes of Chinese miners, here's what we know about the sitting president at the time and his family's ties to China and the Chinese Communist Party.

The Bush family is seemingly an expert in Sino–American relations. 

In 1974, former President George H.W. Bush was appointed by President Gerald Ford as the chief of the Liaison Office to the People's Republic of China. 

His father, Prescott Sheldon Bush Sr., an American banker and Republican Party politician, was well known for his high-level business deals in China. These deals expanded exponentially in 2001 when his grandson George W. Bush took office.

Following in family business, Neil Bush, George W. Bush's younger brother, struck a $400,000-a-year contract in 2003 to provide business advice to a Chinese computer chip company. Neil also set up the George H. W. Bush Foundation for US-China Relations, which is centrally funded by Chinese front groups linked to the Chinese Communist Party. The foundation infamously accepted a $5 million grant from the China-United States Exchange Foundation—a policy group at the center of China's U.S. influence efforts.

Furthermore, he represented Sinopec Group, a Chinese oil giant, in a bid for a part of an oil field in Ghana, highlighting the Bush family's involvement in helping Chinese companies secure resources.

Neil has also frequently been seen on Chinese television making claims that the Hong Kong human rights violations were exaggerated and that Americans misjudged Chinese policies. 

The Bush family is not the only political dynasty known for questionable relations with the Chinese government. 

In 2017, just months after Joe Biden's Vice President term ended, a $3 million wire was made to a Shell company operated by Hunter Biden's partner, Rob Walker, from a Chinese company, State Energy HK. State Energy HK is run by Ye Jianming, a former military member who worked on foreign influence operations. 

Walker's shell company directed over $1 million from HK to three Biden family members. Walker admitted to the FBI that Joe Biden attended several meetings with CEFC, another Ye Jianming business, during his vice presidency.

Along with bank statements and an admission from Hunter Biden, large amounts of money related to CEFC were paid to Joe Biden.

Could it be reasonable, given the history of Chinese influence in our political system and their financial ties with prominent US policymakers, to suggest incomprehensible actions by our US government like the Afghan pullout, which allowed China to set up in Baghdad airbase just a day after we left, in 2023 were not due to incompetency but treasonous financial agreements made with a foreign adversary?