This is a chapter from RealClearInvestigations' Hunter Biden Reader, a collection of news reports on Joe Biden's errant son and other family members. (Above, the Vice President with Hunter and granddaughter Finnegan during a 2013 China trip that has raised suspicions ever since).
Selected Articles on Hunter Biden’s China Dealings
(In Reverse Chronological Order)
Biden Admin's 1M-Barrel Oil Sale to Hunter-Tied China Co.
Collin Anderson, Washington Free Beacon, July 7, 2022
The Biden administration sold roughly one million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to a Chinese state-controlled gas giant, Sinopec, that continues to purchase Russian oil. In 2015, a private equity firm Hunter Biden cofounded bought a $1.7 billion stake in Sinopec Marketing. Sinopec went on to enter negotiations to purchase Gazprom in March, one month after the Biden administration sanctioned the Russian gas giant.
Top U.S.-China Contacts Found in Hunter Biden Laptop Rolodex
Jon Levine, New York Post, July 2
Hunter Biden’s hard drive contained an enviable lineup of contacts for top US officials tasked with overseeing the US-China relationship. Many of the top-level government officials would have been in position to help Hunter Biden’s business aspirations in China during father’s term as vice president from 2008 to 2016.
Voicemail: Joe Biden Discussing China Business With Hunter
Josh Boswell, Daily Mail, June 27
President Joe Biden spoke with Hunter about his business dealings with a Chinese criminal his son dubbed the 'spy chief of China,' a voicemail to his son reveals. The president has repeatedly denied personally and through his press secretary that he ever talked about Hunter's foreign business with his Hunter – despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Hunter & Co.: $11M From Ukraine, China Work From 2013-'18
Winter et al., NBC News, May 19
Biden made $5.8 million, more than half his total earnings from 2013 to 2018, from two deals with Chinese business interests.
Joe Biden agreed to pay Hunter’s legal bills tied to Chinese firm deal: email
Bruce Golding, New York Post, April 26
President Joe Biden agreed to cover more than $800,000 in bills racked up by his son — including legal fees tied to the winding down of his controversial overseas business dealings — ahead of the 2020 election, according to an email that surfaced Tuesday.
Hunter Biden Hawked Natural Gas to China
Michael Ginsberg, Henry Rodgers, Daily Caller, April 14
Hunter Biden briefed Chinese energy investors on American natural gas production and sales shortly after a state-run energy corporation entered into a memorandum of understanding with the state of West Virginia.
VP Biden Touted Son of Hunter's Chinese Business Partner
Brooke Singman, Fox News, April 6
President Biden, in 2017, wrote a college recommendation letter for the son of a Chinese executive who did business with Hunter Biden, according to emails reviewed by Fox News Digital.
Inside Hunter Biden’s Major Deals With a Chinese Energy Firm
Viser et al., Washington Post, March 30
While many aspects of Hunter Biden’s financial arrangement with CEFC China Energy have been previously reported and were included in a Republican-led Senate report from 2020, a Washington Post review confirmed many of the key details and found additional documents showing Biden family interactions with Chinese executives.
Receipts: Chinese Tycoon Payments to Hunter Biden
Jordan Boyd, The Federalist, March 29
Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin released bombshell receipts showing Hunter received payments from foreign oligarchs that further reveal “the extent to which President Biden might be — and almost certainly is — compromised.” According to the documents obtained by the senators, energy company CEFC, “an arm of the Chinese Government,” paid Wells Fargo Clearing Services $100,000 and designated “further credit to Owasco,” Hunter’s firm.
Chinese Firms Tied to Hunter Biden Could Bail Out Putin
Chuck Ross, Washington Free Beacon, March 9
Hunter Biden is linked to two Chinese state oil companies -- Sinopec and China National Petroleum Corporation -- looking to buy stakes in a Russian energy firm that has been sanctioned over Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Chinese Titan Lavished Hunter Biden with 3-Carat Gem, Offer of $30 Million
Miranda Devine, New York Post, Nov. 28, 2021
The Biden family offered their services to a huge, Chinese government-linked energy consortium to expand its business around the world. What was in it for the Biden family? Apparently millions of dollars and more.
How Hunter Biden’s Firm Helped Chinese Secure Cobalt
Forsythe et al., New York Times, Nov. 20
The president’s son was part owner of a venture involved in the $3.8 billion purchase by a Chinese conglomerate of one of the world’s largest cobalt deposits. The metal is a key ingredient in batteries for electric vehicles.
Emails: Hunter Biden's Relationship With Chinese Tycoon
Chuck Ross, Washington Free Beacon, Oct. 13
Hunter Biden said his business relationship with a mysterious Chinese tycoon later arrested on money laundering charges had "everything to do with my last name," previously unreported emails show. Biden and his associates met in April 2010 with businessman Che Fung to lay the groundwork for a partnership to invest in companies in China and the United States, according to emails from Biden's abandoned laptop. Other emails show the Biden consortium discussing a deal with Che's company, Ever Union Capital, to invest up to $150 million in partnership with China's sovereign wealth fund. In a Sept. 23, 2011, email to his partner Devon Archer, Biden admitted Che wanted to work with him because of his father, then-vice president Joe Biden.
Emails: Joe Biden's Brother-in-Law Asked Hunter Biden
for Help Securing China Business License
Cameron Cawthorne, Fox News, Oct. 7
President Biden’s brother-in-law, John Owens, reached out to Hunter Biden in 2014 for help in securing a business license to expand his telemedicine company in China, saying it needed to be "secured very quickly," according to emails obtained by Fox News.
Hunter Biden Still Holds 10% Stake in Chinese Firm Despite Pledge to Divest
Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, Sept. 27
Hunter Biden still appears to hold an ownership stake in a Chinese government-linked firm that has invested in companies sanctioned by the United States despite repeated pledges from President Joe Biden that his family would not have any foreign business ties and claims from White House press secretary Jen Psaki that Biden’s son was ending his investment.
Hunter Biden Emails Boast Ties to White House and China
Emily Crane, New York Post, Sept. 23
Hunter Biden’s business contacts touted his access to his father, “State, Treasury,” his relationship with then-Secretary of State John Kerry’s stepson, as well as his ties to the “highest level” in China, as they weighed whether to work with him on a potential Libya deal in 2015, newly uncovered emails show.
Hunter Biden-Tied Group and Chinese Communist Front
Chuck Ross, Washington Free Beacon, May 19
A nonprofit group backed by some of America’s biggest companies and linked to Hunter Biden works closely with a Chinese Communist Party front group accused of trying to influence state and local policymakers.
Hunter Biden's Big China Deal Ambitions
Seamus Bruner & John Solomon, Just the News, April 22
The deal involved a former U.S. ambassador to China, a former top Joe Biden aide and a Chinese state-owned bank. "We have all the pieces in place in China to move on this," one email boasted.
Veracity of 'Hunter Biden-China Dossier' Doubted Too
Mara Hvistendahl, The Intercept, Nov. 11, 2020
Online profiles of the dossier's publisher misrepresent key aspects of his background, The Intercept has learned.
A Collusion Tale: China and the Bidens
Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, Oct. 31
Not only were the Bidens' Chinese business contacts known to have ties to the regime; they also may have been clandestine agents.
Feds Got FISA Spy Warrant on Hunter Biden Chinese Associate
Chuck Ross, Daily Caller, Oct. 27
Federal investigators obtained Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants against one of Hunter Biden's Chinese business associates.
Hunter Biden Touted Dad in China-Colombia Investment Pitch
Chuck Ross, Daily Caller, Oct. 27
Hunter Biden and partners seeking a $10 million investment deal with a Chinese energy firm touted Joe Biden's friendly relations with Colombia's president.
Texts: Hunter Biden Tried to Avoid Registering as Foreign Agent
Chuck Ross, Daily Caller, Oct. 26
Hunter Biden suggested setting up a U.S.-based shell company in May 2017 to do business with a Chinese firm in order to bid on contracts with the US government.
Hunter Biden and Firm's Sale to Chinese
Peter Schweizer, Breitbart, Oct. 23
In September 2015, the Obama-Biden administration approved the sale of a strategically sensitive Michigan manufacturer, Henniges Automotive, to a firm connected to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, and a Chinese military contractor that was on an American watch list because of its close ties to the People’s Liberation Army.
Tale of the Texts: The Biden ‘Family Legacy’
Kimberley A. Strassel, Wall Street Journal, Oct. 22
Joe Biden has a problem, and his name is Hunter. Because the former vice president hasn’t had to answer any questions on this topic—and continued to refuse to do so in Thursday’s debate—that problem could soon become America’s.
New Hunter Biden Twist: White House Visit for Chinese
Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, Oct. 22
In November 2011, an elite group of Chinese Communist Party members and billionaire cronies of the repressive regime in Beijing secured a meeting in the White House, said to be with Vice President Biden and other Obama administration officials, through Hunter Biden’s associates.
Kamala Harris, Dems 'Key Contacts' for Bidens' Business
Brooke Singman, Fox News, Oct. 22
A list of “key domestic contacts” for a joint venture involving Jim and Hunter Biden and now-bankrupt CEFC China Energy Co. included former Vice President Joe Biden's current running mate Sen. Kamala Harris, among other prominent Democrats.
Feds Tracked Overseas Cash Pocketed by Hunter Biden
Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times, Oct. 4
Democratic presidential nominee Biden denied at a debate that his lawyer son took huge sums of money from corrupt oligarchs and Chinese communists during his vice presidency, but Treasury Department reports show that Hunter Biden did receive the money.
Hunter Biden's Deals With Russians, Chinese, Kazakhs Etc.
Jack Crowe, National Review, Sept. 23
Senate Republicans released a report detailing extensive business dealings Hunter Biden pursued with politically connected foreign nationals while his father was vice president. “The Treasury records acquired by the Chairmen show potential criminal activity relating to transactions among and between Hunter Biden, his family, and his associates with Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh and Chinese nationals,” the report reads.
Documentary: The Bidens' Chinese Secrets
Peter Schweizer, The Blaze Sept. 5
What We Know About Hunter Biden’s Dealings in China
James T. Arredy, Wall Street Journal, Oct. 4, 2019
Speaking to reporters, President Trump said China, along with Ukraine, should investigate the business dealings of former Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. Here is what we know about the Biden family’s dealings in China.
Will Hunter Biden Jeopardize His Father’s Campaign?
Adam Entous, New Yorker, July 1
Quote:
Hunter was on the board of the World Food Program USA, a nonprofit that generates support for the U.N. World Food Programme, and he had hoped that [Chinese energy tycoon] Ye [Jianming, who was trying to make connections in Washington among prominent Democrats and Republicans] would make a large aid donation. At dinner that night, they discussed the donation, and then the conversation turned to business opportunities. Hunter offered to use his contacts to help identify investment opportunities for Ye’s company, CEFC China Energy, in liquefied-natural-gas projects in the United States. After the dinner, Ye sent a 2.8-carat diamond to Hunter’s hotel room with a card thanking him for their meeting.
Troubling Reason Biden's Soft on China
Peter Schweizer, New York Post, May 11
The businesses of Hunter Biden and his partners created a series of LLCs involved in multibillion-dollar private equity deals with companies owned by the Chinese government. Troublingly, some of those investments had major implications for national security.
A Chinese Tycoon Sought Power and Influence. Washington Responded.
Stevenson et al., New York Times, Dec. 12, 2018
Ye Jianming courted the Biden family and networked with former United States security officials. Today, his empire is crashing down in court.
Peter Schweizer: China Seeks Influence Through Proxies, Trump's Adult Children
Adam Rubenstein, Washington Examiner, April 10
Quote:
In December 2013 Hunter Biden, son of Joe Biden, travels with his father aboard Air Force Two to Beijing. The vice president is negotiating a bunch of very sensitive issues with the Chinese, including the South China Sea, trade, tech transfer, etc. Biden is criticized on that trip for basically going soft on Beijing. Shortly after they return to the U.S., Hunter Biden’s firm receives a $1 billion private equity deal from the Chinese government. Not from an American business in China; from the Chinese government itself. It later gets increased to $1.5 billion. We have no way of knowing how much Rosemont made on the deal because there are no disclosure requirements. That’s part of the problem.
Author Alleges China Used Business Deals to Influence Families of Mitch McConnell, Joe Biden
Aruna Viswanatha, Wall Street Journal, Mar. 15
In December 2013, Mr. Schweizer writes, Bank of China set up a collaboration with Rosemont Seneca with $1 billion in funds backed by the Chinese government, giving a Western firm access for the first time to a cross-border investment fund formed in the Shanghai Free-Trade Zone.
Inside the Shady Private Equity Firm Run by Kerry and Biden’s Kids
Peter Schweizer, New York Post, March 15
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Rosemont Seneca and the Bank of China created a $1 billion investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR), a name that reflected who was involved. Bohai (or Bo Hai), the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea, was a reference to the Chinese stake in the company. The “RS” referred to Rosemont Seneca. The “T” was Thornton. The fund enjoyed an unusual and special status in China. BHR touted its “unique Sino-US shareholding structure” and “the global resources and network” that allowed it to secure investment “opportunities.” Funds were backed by the Chinese government. In short, the Chinese government was literally funding a business that it co-owned along with the sons of two of America’s most powerful decision makers.
