For her relatives with chinese government officials and she wanted the u.s. government to do that for her. the official who had just departed as department chief of mission at the u.s. embassy at beijing when she went the requests he called it alarmingly inappropriate. in fact, people were alarmed. that request by her office was flagged by the embassy back to state department headquarters in washington. he was flagged to ethics officials in both the state department and the transportation department after ethics officials in both of those departments were flagged to what elaine chao was trying...