Subject: RHB Reading Club #2 + 2018 Business Ideas + Small Desk Deco
From: "JiaQi Bao" <[email-masked]>
To: "Robert Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 02:25:46 -0500

Happy New Year, Hunter!

Enjoying my last day of vacation before going back to work tomorrow.
Interesting reading, new thoughts, and surprise for you accomplished over
the last week of vacation time.  Please let me know your thought! :D

1.       RHB Reading Club 2018 Reading #2

            How did you like Reading #1 that I sent to you via Wechat?

Just read this today:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-cancer-alcohol/how-alcohol-damages-stem-cell-dna-and-increases-cancer-risk-idUSKBN1ES1N2

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180103132629.htm

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25154

One of my New Year’s Wishes is that you could drink less…the latest study
published by Nature shows that alcohol is cancerogenic!  Please don’t have
your family and friends who care about you worry much about your health.  I
will do anything and everything to make you happy so that alcoholic
beverages’ widely believed mythical function as a stress reliever won’t be
an excuse for indulgence!

If alcohol is truly an effective stress reliver, then I’m the one who
really needs to practice how to drink wisely, haha...I hope we could
communicate more often in 2018…Sometimes, there are so many things I want
to talk to you and pick your brain, but not been able to reach you timely
or talk to you right away can cause much anxiety and it is something I have
not yet get used to.  Then when I do see you, I don't know where to start
anymore as there are too many thoughts i want to tell you.  I really hope
you have more faith and trust in me.  As I don’t know the whole picture,
what others say, and what you perceive and what you think, but do know that
sometimes what you perceive or hear from other people might not always be
the full picture, what one thing sounds likes / seemed like, might be
different from the reality.  Recently, I learned this lesson in my personal
life when I misunderstood and misperceived a friend.  Because of that, I
value the direct, straight-forward, even confrontational communication
between friends even more – I’m glad I confronted her with specifics, and
that hard conversation helped cleared miscommunication and misperception,
saved our friendship.  I wish to talk to you directly about something…when
you have time.  I’m always an open book to you, but I don’t know when you
have time to read me.  As you know, I believe in the fortuneteller’s omen
about we are each other’s lucky star. Moreover, you have such a charismatic
personality and I know you are a super nice person that I'm naturally draw
to, so you know, I have your best interest at heart and I want to do
something for you to show my appreciation.  Besides, as you are also my
lucky star, helping you is helping myself, but I don’t know how and what to
do when you always have no time for me :(

Sentiment asides, I also want to propose a few things to you about
business.  Please let me know your thought

2.       New Year’s Business Idea for Hudson West

*A.      **Research*: I mentioned to you about the idea of “selling
research” or having Hudson West research publication as a “paid service /
billable deliverable” to the mothership or any other partners.  I hope to
discuss more with you in detail about this idea, especially with thoughts
on how to implement it.  On another note, I have not forgot to translate my
50+ page Chinese report on natural gas into English for you, but before the
holiday season vacation, I was caught up by one assignment after another
task at the office. So I planned to do a good job with the translation by
using my own personal time and vacation time, and give you a surprise when
I come back from vacation.  However, I’m very sorry for disappointing you
that I only finished 25% of my original plan over vacation, this was
because I got sick from a very bad cold and I had a small emergency to deal
with to help my brothers.  Nevertheless, I will try to finish it up for you
in my personal time ASAP.  Promise our mini-book on natural gas is very
comprehensive and practical :)

*B.      **My personal contact whom I hope to introduce to you + potential
deals for Hudson West*: Through my previous work experience, I have built a
few professional and personal connections whom I felt might be helpful for
us to talk to for potential deals/ideas for Hudson West.  For instance, my
family friend David Eldon, chairman of HSBC Middle East and board of
director of Noble Group might be a person I think would worth your time to
talk to.  Besides explore possibility for business collaboration, he might
be a good conservationist with interesting ideas that might benefit our
business.  Same thing with a couple of my other contacts in the energy
sector, such as Joy Bhaswar of Natixis + my other Natixis contacts and
friends.  As such, I listed below the organizations and contacts that I
think that you might found interesting.   I wanted to tell you right before
taken off for vacation, but it is very hard to reach you and I know you
must be busy with other obligations, especially right before the holiday
season.  I did mention a couple, not all, of the contacts below to Kevin
and Mervyn.  Did not talk much about detailed thought (want to talk to you
more first), just simply mentioned the idea of potentially acquire
something that Noble might be selling.  Kevin is especially interested in
getting to know a bit more about Noble and David Eldon.  However, I want to
discuss with you to see if you would be interested and whether this is
something we should explore in 2018.  And I won’t do anything yet, until I
hear from you.

*C.      **Noble (energy and commodity trading) - David*

*D.      **HSBC (general) - David*

*E.       **Natixis (energy, infrastructure, real estate) – Joy/Jerry*

*F.       **KLS Diversified (distressed energy) - Aileen*

3.       Your New Desk Toys ;P

It was so not nice for you ditch the hard-to-get appointment!  I have to
apologies 10 thousand times to him!  And I lost my deposit :( especially
given I’m the kind of person don’t even like to lose a penny when I could
avoid.  I did my best to find a couple of auspicious fengshui desk toys
especially for you.  You will see them on your desk next time when you are
in office.  I bought them with my own money as a gift to you, but I don’t
want to anyone in the office to know about your lucky charms on the desk,
so if anyone ask (especially the noisy office manager), I will just say
they are my random toys for decorative purposes (but they are really for
you and they are not just for decorative purposes but auspicious fengshui
charms).  Will explain to you about each item’s purpose and setup when you
have time over the phone or in person.   I couldn’t get all the toys,
because there are certain ones I have not get a chance to find and other
very specific ones that it is required for you to ask the master in person,
a little weird for me to ask as the master might felt like a violation of
your privacy without having your consent in person.  Nevertheless, we will
be super lucky in 2018!

See you in 2018!

Best,

JiaQ