[ April 19, 2024 ]
This reads like some bad third world corruption story.
Wherever Joe Biden went, son Hunter cashed in
Exclusive — ‘This is China, Inc.’: Emails Reveal Hunter Biden’s Associates Helped Communist-Aligned Chinese Elites Secure White House Meetings
By: Peter Schweizer Breitbart News,, Octtober 15, 2020:
Story continues below advertisementNewly obtained emails from a Hunter Biden business partner lay out in detail how the Vice President’s son and his colleagues used their access to the Obama-Biden administration to arrange private meetings for potential foreign clients and investors at the highest levels in the White House. These never-before-revealed emails outline how a delegation of Chinese investors and Communist Party officials managed to secure a private, off-the-books meeting with then-Vice President Joe Biden.
In a 2011 email, Hunter Biden’s business associates also discussed developing relations with what one called “China Inc.” as part of a “new push on soft diplomacy for the Chinese.” These emails are completely unconnected to the Hunter Biden emails being released by the New York Post.
These and more explosive never-before-revealed emails were provided to Schweizer by Bevan Cooney, a one-time Hunter Biden and Devon Archer business associate. Cooney is currently in prison serving a sentence for his involvement in a 2016 bond fraud investment scheme.
In 2019, Cooney reached out to Schweizer after becoming familiar with the revelations in his 2018 book Secret Empires. Cooney explained that he believes he was the “fall guy” for the fraud scheme and that Archer and Hunter Biden had avoided responsibility.
Archer, who was also convicted in the case, saw a federal judge vacate his conviction. But an appellate court overturned the lower court judge’s ruling, reinstating Archer’s conviction in the case. Archer, Hunter Biden’s longtime business partner, awaits sentencing.
Cooney, their associate who is currently serving a prison sentence on his conviction in the matter, later reestablished contact with Schweizer through investigative journalist Matthew Tyrmand. From prison, Cooney provided Schweizer with written authorization, his email account name, and password to his Gmail account to retrieve these emails. He authorized, in writing, the publication of these emails— notable because it is the first time a close associate has publicly confirmed Hunter’s trading on his father’s influence.
The emails offer a unique window into just how the Biden universe conducted business during the Obama-Biden Administration. These associates sought to trade on Hunter Biden’s relationship with, and access to, his father and the Obama-Biden White House in order to generate business.
For instance, on November 5, 2011, one of Archer’s business contacts forwarded him an email teasing an opportunity to gain “potentially outstanding new clients” by helping to arrange White House meetings for a group of Chinese executives and government officials. The group was the China Entrepreneur Club (CEC) and the delegation included Chinese billionaires, Chinese Communist Party loyalists, and at least one “respected diplomat” from Beijing. Despite its benign name, CEC has been called “a second foreign ministry” for the People’s Republic of China—a communist government that closely controls most businesses in its country. CEC was established in 2006 by a group of businessmen and Chinese government diplomats.
Re China Entrepreneurs Club… by Breitbart News
CEC’s leadership boasts numerous senior members of the Chinese Communist Party, including Wang Zhongyu (“vice chairman of the 10th CPPCC National Committee and deputy secretary of the Party group”), Ma Weihua (director of multiple Chinese Communist Party offices), and Jiang Xipei (member of the Chinese Communist Party and representative of the 16th National Congress), among others.
“I know it is political season and people are hesitant but a group like this does not come along every day,” an intermediary named Mohamed A. Khashoggi wrote on behalf of the CEC to an associate of Hunter Biden and Devon Archer. “A tour of the white house and a meeting with a member of the chief of staff’s office and John Kerry would be great,” Khashoggi said before including what should have been a major red flag: “Not sure if one has to be registered to do this.” Presumably, Khashoggi meant a registered lobbyist under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
Khashoggi believed the trip presented “a soft diplomacy play that could be very effective” and would give Hunter Biden’s business partners “good access to [the Chinese] for any deal in the future.”
Indeed, the email boasted of CEC’s wealthy membership:
CEC’s current membership includes 50 preeminent figures such as: Liu Chuanzhi, Chairman of the CEC, Legend Holdings and Lenovo Group; Wu Jinglian, Zhang Weiying, and Zhou Qiren, China’s esteemed economists; Wu Jianmin, respected diplomat; Long Yongtu, representative of China’s globalization; Wang Shi (Vanke); Ma Weihua (China Merchants Bank); Jack Ma (Alibaba Group); Guo Guangchang (Fosun Group); Wang Jianlin, (Wanda Group); Niu Gensheng (LAONIU Foundation); Li Shufu (Geely); Li Dongsheng (TCL Corporation); Feng Lun (Vantone) and etc.
The gross income of the CEC members’ companies allegedly “totaled more than RMB 1.5 trillion, together accounting for roughly 4% of China’s GDP.” The overture to Hunter Biden’s associates described the Chinese CEC members variously as “industrial elites,” “highly influential,” and among “the most important private sector individuals in China today.”
Before contacting Hunter Biden’s associates, the CEC had been trying to get meetings with top Obama-Biden administration officials to no avail. “From the DC side as you will see below they [CEC] have written letters to several members of the administration and others and have so far not had a strong reaction.”
“This is China Inc,” wrote Khashoggi in the email, referring to the delegation of Chinese billionaires.
“Biggest priority for the CEC group is to see the White House, and have a senior US politician, or senior member of Obama’s administration, give them a tour… If your friend in DC can help, we would be extremely grateful,” Khashoggi emphasized.
Hunter Biden and Devon Archer apparently delivered for the Chinese Communist Party-connected industrial elites within ten days .
The original Oct. 19, 2011, email from Khashoggi was sent to Gary Fears — a controversial political fundraiser with a checkered history who was caught up in a riverboat casino scandal in the mid-1990s — who forwarded it on to Archer a couple weeks later on Nov. 5, 2011.
Time was short, as Khashoggi’s original email noted that the Chinese delegation would be in DC on Nov. 14, 2011. Fears told Archer to “reach out” to Khashoggi about the request regarding getting the Chinese businesspersons and officials into the Obama White House, adding it would be “perfect for” Archer to also “attend” with them and then “get guys for the potash deal.”
The same day Fears sent Khashoggi’s message to him, Archer took the email from Fears and sent to Khashoggi a business proposal for a potash mine deal he had lined up.
Six days after the initial overture, Archer received a followup email asking how a meeting with CEC’s representative went. The email closed with “Do me a favor and ask Hunter [Biden] to call me — I’ve tried reaching him a couple of times.” Archer responded, “Hunter is traveling in the UAE for the week with royalty so probably next week before he will be back in pocket…. The meeting with [CEC representative] was good. Seems like there is a lot to do together down the line. Probably not a fit for the current Potash private placement but he’s a good strategic relationship as the mine develops. Definitely have a drink with Mohammed and let him know how impressed I was with his whole deal.”
One minute later, Archer sent a follow-up email, “Couldn’t confirm this with Hunter on the line but we got him his meeting at the WH Monday for the Chinese folks.”
On the day of the meeting, November 14, 2011, Cooney emailed Fears to confirm that Archer “got the Chinese guys all taken care of in DC.”
The Obama-Biden Administration archives reveal that this Chinese delegation did indeed visit the White House on November 14, 2011, and enjoyed high-level access. The delegation included approximately thirty members, according to White House visitor logs. But those records also obscure perhaps the most important item for the Chinese delegation: a meeting with Vice President Joe Biden himself.
The visitor logs list Jeff Zients, the deputy director of Obama’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), as the host of the CEC delegation. Obama had tasked Zients with restructuring and ultimately consolidating the various export-import agencies under the Commerce Department—an effort in which the Chinese delegation would have a keen interest.
A trip itinerary posted by the CEC also confirms the delegation met with Obama’s then-recently-confirmed Commerce Secretary John Bryson.
Curiously, the Obama-Biden visitor logs do not mention any meeting with Vice President Joe Biden. But the Vice President’s off-the-books meeting was revealed by one of the core founders of the CEC. In an obscure document listing the CEC members’ biographies, CEC Secretary General Maggie Cheng alleges that she facilitated the CEC delegation meetings in Washington in 2011 and boasts of the Washington establishment figures that CEC met with. The first name she dropped was that of Vice President Joe Biden.
The relationships established during that visit may have benefited Hunter Biden and Devon Archer down the road. Two years later, they famously helped to form the Chinese government funded Bohai Harvest RST (BHR) investment fund. One of BHR’s first major portfolio investments was a ride-sharing company like Uber called Didi Dache—now called Didi Chuxing Technology Co. That company is closely connected to Liu Chuanzhi, the chairman of the China Entrepreneur Club (CEC) and the founder of Legend Holdings—the parent company of Lenovo, one of the world’s largest computer companies. Liu is a former Chinese Communist Party delegate and was a leader of the 2011 CEC delegation to the White House. His daughter was the President of Didi.
Liu has long been involved in CCP politics, including serving as a representative to the 9th, 10th, and 11th sessions of the National People’s Congress of the PRC and as a representative to the 16th and 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. Liu was the Vice Chairman of the 8th and 9th Executive Committee of All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC), an organization known to be affiliated with the Chinese United Front.
The Biden campaign has not responded to a request for comment on this story.
This is a developing story.
Peter Schweizer is the author of Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite. Seamus Bruner is the author of Fallout: Nuclear Bribes, Russian Spies, and the Washington Lies that Enriched the Clinton and Biden Dynasties.
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36 Comments
3 years ago
Yes, of course he tried to gain access. The Clinton Foundation was established for that, as well. So charge the perps.
3 years ago
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Bill
Cash flowed to Clinton Foundation as Russians gained U.S. uranium assets
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-gained-us-uranium-assets/
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/utility-industry-aids-putins-stealth-war-u-s-uranium-mining/
3 years ago
3 years ago
3 years ago
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Anthony Silvio
JCPOA weapons embargo expires on October 18. There is compelling evidence that Biden knew that Iran harbored Osama Bin Laden for years, since 2001. Obama / Biden lied to us, big time, for years. We thought we were fighting Al Qaeda, but we weren’t. They lounged in comfort in Iran. Biden did nothing and said nothing, and Obama / Biden gave Iran 152 billion dollars to sweeten that useless JCPOA deal.
Trump / Pompeo / Mnuchin will enforce the sanctions unilaterally from the USA side. But it will be hard work, while the UN remains deadlocked, as usual.
3 years ago
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DemocracyRules
Hunter Biden is very serious drug addict: Meth and Heroin. Tooth destruction results from reductions of salivary flow due to chronic methamphetamine abuse.
3 years ago
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DemocracyRules
Many people forced to wear masks in reaction to the panDEMic have had similar dental issues to methheads as in the above right photo. And for the same reasons.
3 years ago
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Patriotic American
Yes, but of course Hunter has very serious dental problems that come from years of meth abuse.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
The point is, mask wearers’ dental issues are similar to those who chronically abused meth as Hunter has had.
3 years ago
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ed
ed: Good point. According to the emails, when Trump said “where’s Hunter?”, Hunter was in a a residential drug addiction treatment program, and failing badly.
3 years ago
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ed
Isn’t it interesting how we slip into calling our nation’s president “Mr”? I notice article after article wherein others are referred to by their title. Yet President Trump is “Mr.” Trump.
Not criticizing you, ed. When all you read is “Mr.”, it’s easy to slip into that habit.
3 years ago
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Achmed Mohandjob
Actually, Ach…I hear and read a lot of “Trump”. Out of respect, I will say Mr. or President. “Trump” sounds like the high school quarterback that everyone calls by his last name only….
3 years ago
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ed
I was simply tying that in, as to how the most of the printed media, paper or online, refer to the president as “Mr. Trump”.
They ALWAYS referred to obimbo as “President obimbo”.
3 years ago
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Achmed Mohandjob
I ALWAYS refer to that one as either the Kenyan mozzlem, or simply….Hussein.
3 years ago
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Achmed Mohandjob
Perhaps I should say….”limp-wristed Hussein”, so as to clear up any confusion…..
3 years ago
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Achmed Mohandjob
Michael Obama could tell us what he blows…..maybe it will be a chapter of his next best seller. Or as Biden might say….”breast” seller….
3 years ago
so obongo needed a grifter to get him in office
3 years ago
Bring your brooms because it’s a mess.
I’m gonna roll up my sleeves, put my sandwich in my lunch pail, and grab my broom. Cause it’s a MESS.
3 years ago
Yeah, and Canada is right in there too with Trudope.
3 years ago
You’re sure it was the White House and not Ottawa????
3 years ago
Dear Mr. Schweizer :
IT IS NOT A THIRD WORLD STORY !
IT HAPPENS IN FRONT OF US, ALL OVER THE WESTERN WORLD – IT IS NOT A MOVIE !
All the facts, all the actions, all persons are precisely the essence of dictatorship, nepotism, supremacism, racism, terror, treason, godlessness.
3 years ago
Cookie jar clamped shut on those hands sleepy,creepy all china joe – so goes as lenin stated ” we will sell them (capitalists) the rope they will hang themselves with”
3 years ago
Sometimes I have no sense at all, as this now obvious reality just recently made its way to my conscious mind.
Who are they? They are minions of the dark side. For years we have watched history documentaries and gangster documentaries on how kingdoms and criminals coalesced power through understandings, agreements, wars, violence, threats of violence, corruption, leverage, coercion, marriage contracts, etc. When reading family trees it becomes a rats nest to sort out. And the mafia figured out there was more money and less jail when they went legit; so they sort of disappeared, right? No. They simply changed hats. Anyway, corporations, towns, governments, banks, media, you name it, continue this practice, adding to their influence and power. This happens within governments all the time and comprises what we call the deep state. Contracts and agreements reach right into our counties and living rooms every day. And a group think permeates the conglomerate as a hive mentality, if you will. Read the Lucifer Principle (not for children) for a decent description, about this dark side of human nature.
Remember that the weeds and the wheat reside together, side by side, at all levels. Recognize who they are and resist. And more importantly recognize who you are and what your task is while you live here. How do we resist? Pray. Influence. Vote. Use alternate forms of communication, like the comment section of articles. Yes, I know there is no privacy, so some will choose to stay off the matrix all together; each path is different. If you are in the matrix, learn, speak and stand. Keep the same name so you can be found as a reliable source of information within your skill set. Many commenters here on GellerReport already do this. You know who you look for when you come in. I will keep my eyes fixed on God and grab the hand of the next guy that walks or floats in from the fray. Like crystals of sugar in the rock candy pan. This is indeed a spiritual battle and I am sticking with God,Jesus, The Spirit and all of His.
3 years ago
I’ve decided to NOT get excited about any of the revelations about the biden crime family unless I actually see something happen; like laws being applied to this latest biden fiasco. I also don’t think anything will be done about it because the corruption in Amerika runs deep, real deep! For instance, the FBI director had everything on hunters laptop and did nothing as the dems tried to impeach Trump for what biden actually in fact did in Ukraine. I could go on and on about all this but I’m just going to move past this unless I actually see something happen; like laws being applied instead of crimes being ignored.
3 years ago
Was there something illegal here?
Sounds like Cooney, currently in prison serving a sentence for his involvement in a 2016 bond fraud investment scheme, is grinding an axe to appeal for a Trump pardon.
