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America First Legal shared new photos on Monday of then-Vice President Joe Biden introducing son Hunter to Chinese President Xi Jinping and more Chinese officials and businessmen with CCP ties.
AFL obtained the photos through a lawsuit against the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which was filed on September 8, 2022.
The photos, from 2013, clearly show Joe Biden introducing Hunter Biden to Chinese President Xi Jinping, then-Vice President Li Yuanchao, and Hunter’s future business associate at Bohai Harvest RST (BHR) Jonathan Li.
Government Accountability supporters may recall in Peter Schweizer’s 2018 book Secret Empires, he blew the lid off the Bidens’ suspicious financial relationship with China and exposed Hunter Biden’s role in facilitating the sale of a Michigan-based auto parts maker — and sensitive U.S. technology — to China-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China or AVIC — a company with a long history of stealing Western technology.
Then-Secretary of State John Kerry’s stepson Chris Heinz also partnered with Hunter Biden.
From Peter Schweizer in The New York Post:
In September 2015, when AVIC bought 51 percent of American precision-parts manufacturer Henniges, the other 49 percent was purchased by the Biden-and-Kerry-linked BHR.
Henniges is recognized as a world leader in anti-vibration technologies in the automotive industry and for its precise, state-of-the-art manufacturing capabilities. Anti-vibration technologies are considered “dual-use” because they can have a military application, according to both the State Department and Department of Commerce.
The technology is also on the restricted Commerce Control List used by the federal government to limit the exports of certain technologies. For that reason, the Henniges deal would require the approval of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which reviews sensitive business transactions that may have a national security implication.
According to BHR internal documents, the Henniges deal included “arduous and often-times challenging negotiations.” The CFIUS review in 2015 included representatives from numerous government agencies including John Kerry’s State Department.
The deal was approved in 2015.
GAI Director of Research Seamus Bruner also drilled down on the relationship — and the security concerns raised by the Henniges deal.
From Seamus Bruner in The Tennessee Star:
That 2015 transaction approved by the Obama administration and its Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) came just 15 months after the United States publicly added one of AVIC’s subsidiaries to a Commerce Department blacklist (known as the “Entity List”) and just months before the Obama administration resumed patrols in the South China Sea because of increased Beijing military aggression in the region, where AVIC-built military jets partake in China’s activities.
The timing has left many, including Senate Finance Committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), questioning whether the CFIUS decision whitewashed security concerns because the vice president’s son was involved in the transaction. Those concerns were heightened this June when the Pentagon listed the entire AVIC conglomerate on a list of companies subject to future sanctions because of its ties to the People’s Liberation Army.
Grassley demanded a briefing from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin last year, saying he was concerned because the Obama administration allowed the transaction to proceed even though Henniges possessed “anti-vibration technologies with military applications” and AVIC had a history of ties to China’s military aggression dating to at least 2007. Officials said what Grassley learned in a classified briefing only heightened his concerns.
“The direct involvement of Mr. Hunter Biden and Mr. Heinz in the acquisition of Henniges by the Chinese government creates a potential conflict of interest,” the senator wrote in an Aug. 14, 2019 letter. “Both are directly related to high-ranking Obama administration officials. The Department of State, then under Mr. Kerry’s leadership, is also a CFIUS member and played a direct role in the decision to approve the Henniges transaction. The appearance of potential conflicts in this case is particularly troubling given Mr. Biden’s and Mr. Heinz’s history of investing in and collaborating with Chinese companies, including at least one posing significant national security concerns.”
The Biden family has spent nearly a decade denying shady dealings and conflicts of interest in their relationship with Chinese officials — these damning new pictures don’t do much to help their case.
See America First Legal’s post below:
/9 Joe Biden also appeared to meet with the Director and Managing Partner of BHR Partners, Ming Xue. pic.twitter.com/bVqYN3DpjX
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) December 23, 2024
