American First Legal obtained photos of then-VP Joe Biden meeting with Hunter’s Chinese associates and Hunter meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping through litigation against the National Archives.
Biden has said over and over he never met or interacted with Hunter’s business associates.
“These images shed light on the connections between then-Vice President Biden, Hunter and his Chinese business associates, and Chinese government officials including President Xi Jinping,” American First Legal wrote in a statement. “Lawyers and representatives for President Biden and President Obama delayed NARA’s release of these photographs, as they did with other records, until after Election Day.”
The photos are from a trip Biden took in 2013 to Asia, including China:
Hunter Biden meets then-Chinese VP Li Yuanchao
Joe Biden with Hunter Biden’s friends at BHR Partners.
Joe Biden introducing Hunter to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
In September 2023, subpoenaed documents showed that Hunter Biden used Joe Biden’s Delaware home address as the beneficiary address for payments from two Chinese nationals.
One of those payments came from….Jonathan Li.
Joe eventually wrote letters of recommendation for Li’s children to Brown University, Cornell University, and New York University.
In October 2019, The Wall Street Journal reported that BHR Partners counted Hunter as one of its nine directors since the company was formed.
However, the firm claimed Hunter “didn’t become a shareholder until October 2017, after his father’s term as vice president ended.”
BHR Partners “is controlled and funded primarily by large Chinese government-owned shareholders.”
The Wall Street Journal also provided more information about BHR Partners:
BHR Partners calls itself a private-equity firm, and it acts on behalf of large financial backers to find companies to invest in, most of them in China.Filings show BHR Partners winning a piece of several desirable transactions: a stake worth more than $900 million in a corporate spinoff of non-oil industry assets from China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. ; a $10 million holding in China General Nuclear Power Corp., just before an initial public offering; and participation with a dozen other investment groups in a $4.4 billion privatization of a property business controlled by entertainment giant Dalian Wanda Group. For a time, BHR Partners held a stake in Didi Chuxing Technology Co., China’s dominant ride-hailing service, and has invested in a leading facial-recognition business, Megvii Technology Inc. BHR Partners has also launched a number of investment funds.Investors in some of these transactions stood to score quick profits, while the firm hasn’t yet made a profitable exit from others, the filings suggest.In the U.S., BHR Partners participated in a $600 million buyout of Michigan automotive-suspension-systems maker Henniges Automotive in 2015, acquiring a 49% stake, but a banker involved in the deal said negotiations were handled primarily by Aviation Industry Corporation of China Ltd., a state-owned aircraft company that bought a 51% stake.
The release does not mention any interactions with CEFC China Energy, a top Chinese private energy company.
Chairman Ye Jianming vanished in 2018 after Chinese authorities took him into custody.
CEFC went bankrupt in early 2020.
Hunter’s connections to CEFC emerged when The New York Post released information from his laptop in October 2020.
The emails from 2017 showed that Hunter wanted to have “lasting and lucrative” deals with CEFC.
More information about the Biden family links to CEFC came out since October 2020:
[Joe] Biden allegedly attended an early 2017 lunch at Washington’s Four Seasons hotel with CEFC China Energy’s chairman Ye Jianming, shortly before an initial $3 million flowed to a consortium of Biden family associates, former Biden family associate Rob Walker testified to Congress.Those funds were a thank-you for preliminary work done while Biden was still vice president, Walker said.Hunter Biden claimed in his impeachment inquiry testimony this year that he could not remember his father’s cameo at the lunch with Ye, who has since gone missing amid a purported anti-corruption campaign by Xi.
Remember, one of those emails detailed packages for six people regarding a venture:
One email sent to Biden on May 13, 2017, with the subject line “Expectations,” included details of “remuneration packages” for six people involved in an unspecified business venture.Biden was identified as “Chair / Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC,” an apparent reference to the former Shanghai-based conglomerate CEFC China Energy Co.His pay was pegged at “850” and the email also noted that “Hunter has some office expectations he will elaborate.”A provisional agreement stated that four people would split 80% of the new company’s shares. Initials identified the four people, which correspond with the four people involved in the email: H, RW, JG, and TB.There was also 10 for Jim and “10 held by H for the big guy.” The emails did not identify this big guy.
Lt. Tony Bobulinksi, one of Hunter’s former associates, confirmed Joe Biden as the “big guy” in the email.
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