User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 908: Imminent, Imbalanced, Improbable Whims/@comment-197.252.3.161-20180615234054/@comment-25400375-20180615235321

As far as I could tell, Bonney respected Whitebeard’s personality, but the possibility about being related to Kuma has some point to it as well.

I think Kong’s active days ended long ago. He’s now more desk job.