ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Patrick Jenevein, CEO Pointe Bello

Patrick Jenevein serves as the chief executive at Pointe Bello, an intelligence driven, strategy development firm that provides pioneering open-source intelligence to governmental and commercial bodies on the People’s Republic of China’s economic statecraft activity worldwide. Prior to launching Pointe Bello, he co-founded Tang Energy Group and, partnering with Chinese state-owned enterprises, developed several businesses in the power-generating and electrical infrastructure sectors. Those included power plants, wind farms, and a manufacturer of wind turbine blades. In 2022, litigation efforts that Jenevein led resulted in collecting dollars in Dallas through a publicly filed document requiring signatures from Beijing.

Jenevein founded Tang’s general partner, the Nolan Group, Inc. (“Nolan”), in 1986 to work as venture capital investor in the natural gas business. NG Processing Company, Inc. (“NG”) grew out of Nolan’s gas gathering and processing operations (1993) and sponsored projects in Uzbekistan, Indonesia, China and South America. Nolan co-founded Tang in 1996, to build, own and operate energy delivery systems in China. Tang formed Tang Wind Energy to start up and own with the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), (Zhong Hang Huiteng Windpower Equipment Company) (2001), which became China’s largest and the world’s 2^nd largest wind blade manufacturer.

Before engaging AVIC in litigation in the United States, various organizations noted Tang’s contributions in the United States and China. In 2010, the U.S. State Department selected Tang as one of twelve global finalists for the Secretary of State’s Award for Corporate Excellence. (ACE). ACE awards recognize important roles that American businesses play overseas as good corporate citizens. Also in 2010, the Dallas Regional Chamber of Commerce presented Tang its Technology Catalyst Award. In 2008, Ernst & Young chose Jenevein as a Regional Winner of its Entrepreneur of the Year Award. In 2007, AVIC named him a “Friend of AVIC.”

Jenevein is a graduate of Davidson College. He is a Council on Foreign Relations Life Member, and past Chairman of the Board, Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas. His speaking appearances have included the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, The Aspen Institute, Milken Institute, National Security Council, Pentagon and Naval Postgraduate School, U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He has published work in, among others, Oil & Gas Reporter, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, the Boston Herald, the Washington Examiner, Fortune, Real Clear Markets, and The Dallas Morning News.

About Steve Fiffer

Steve Fifferis a New York Times best-selling author whose books include his memoir Three Quarters, Two Dimes, ad a Nickel, Jimmie Lee and James, and The Moment, as well as collaborations with former Secretary of State James Baker, civil rights icon C.T. Vivian, Southern Poverty Law Center founder Morris Dees and former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Robert W. Jordan. The winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is a graduate of Yale and the University of Chicago Law School.

“With almost three decades of on-the-ground experience investing in China’s energy sector, Patrick Jenevein provides an unvarnished, firsthand account of both the promise and pitfalls of doing business in China. He recounts his journey and his interactions with officials and business leaders with a sense of adventure, optimism and humor. Yet ultimately, his engagement with China ends with corruption and betrayal, featuring secretly taped recordings and dramatic courtroom battles. The result is a “much needed” and uniquely nuanced portrayal of what it means to dance with the dragon.”

—Elizabeth C. Economy, Senior Advisor (for China) to the Secretary of Commerce
and bestselling author of The World According to China, among others