Posted on 10/19/2020 1:06:59 PM PDT by gattaca
Hunter Bidens business associates helped secure meetings between Chinese tycoons and high-level Obama-era White House officials in 2011, according to emails obtained by author Peter Schweizer and seen by The Epoch Times.
Bidens then-business associates Devon Archer and Bevan Cooney facilitated a group of Chinese business and political elites from the exclusive China Entrepreneur Club (CEC) to visit the White House and meet with administration officials in November 2011 during their trip to the United States, the emails showed.
The Chinese delegation met with then-Vice President Joe Biden during this trip, according to a document on CECs website.
An email also suggested that Archer had communicated with Hunter Biden about setting up the White House meeting for the group.
Hunter Bidens business dealings in China and Ukraine have come under close scrutiny as his father runs for the presidential office. The younger Biden recently also attracted scrutiny for his alleged business deals with Chinese executives at an oil conglomerate that has ties to the Chinese military, as detailed in emails obtained by the New York Post and a Senate report.
Cooney is now in prison serving a sentence for his role in a 2016 scheme to defraud an American Indian tribe. He authorized Schweizer, author of the 2018 book Secret Empires, access to his email account and publication of the emails, the outlet said. Schweizer first published the findings from these emails in a Breitbart report. These emails are separate from the tranche obtained by the New York Post.
Archer was also convicted in the same 2016 case and is currently awaiting sentencing. He and Hunter Biden were partners in Rosemont Seneca Bohai, an asset management firm. They also both joined the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy firm, in 2014.
On Nov. 5, 2011, Archer was forwarded an email from a business contact, Gary Fears. The email contained a request for help from Mohamed A. Khashoggi, apparently an intermediary for CEC, who sought to secure a visit to the White House and meetings with administration officials. He said the business club had sent meeting invitations to several members of the Obama administration and lawmakers but had heard back from them.
A tour of the white house and a meeting with a member of the chief of staffs office and John Kerry would be great, Khashoggi wrote.
If we can set up meetings with Rominy [sic] or non elected officials might be easier, he added, before noting Not sure if one has to be registered to do this, apparently a reference to registration under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Khashoggi described the groups mandate is to let the US know that the Chinese private sector is ready and willing to invest in America.
I think it is a soft diplomacy play that could be very effective, Khashoggi continued, adding that it would give Hunter Bidens business partners good access to [the Chinese] for any deal in the future.
The CEC, which has been referred to as the billionaires club, is composed of Chinas top business leaders, as well as economists and diplomats. At the time, it had 50 members including Liu Chuanzhi, its then-chairman and founder of computer giant Lenovo, Jack Ma, founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, and Wu Jianmin, a prominent Chinese diplomat.
The income of 44 CEC members totaled more than 1.5 trillion yuan ($224 billion) and accounted for roughly 4 percent of Chinas GDP (Gross Domestic Product), the email said.
This is China Inc., Khashoggi wrote of the club.
On Nov. 11, 2011, Fears followed up with Archer in an email asking how a meeting with Khashoggi went. Fears also asked Archer to tell Hunter Biden to call him.
Archer replied that: Hunter is traveling in the UAE for the week with royalty so probably next week before he will be back in pocket.
In a later reply, Archer wrote: Couldnt confirm this with Hunter on the line but we got him his meeting at the WH Monday for the Chinese folks.
On Nov. 14, 2011, the day of the Chinese delegation meeting, Cooney emailed Fears saying Archer got the Chinese guys all taken care of in DC.
White House visitor logs show that a delegation of about 30 people from CEC visited the White House that day, and was hosted by Jeff Zients, then-deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget.
While the logs do not show a meeting with Vice President Biden, a CEC document containing member biographies indicates the delegation met with him, Under Secretary Robert Hormats, former State Secretary Madeleine Albright, and General Colin Powell during the 2011 trip.
The meetings with Hormats, Albright, and Powell are listed in an itinerary for the trip. The itinerary also lists a meeting with then-Commerce Secretary John E. Bryson.
Schweizer told Fox News on Saturday that the emails, as well as others that have not been released, showed a wide net of using the Biden name, using access to the White House, with Hunter serving as the pipeline to the administration as means to help their clients and gain clients.
The names that come up in this are the Chinese, the Russians, the Ukrainians, the Kazakhs, Schweizer added. Its a veritable United Nations of corruption. And what it demonstrates is that Joe Biden, as vice president of the United States, was a center point.
The Biden presidential campaign and Fears did not return a request for comment. Khashoggi and Archer could not be reached for comment.
Old news.
These traitors sold us out cheap.
Obummer uses front men to do his dirty work.
Hes behind it all.
I hope he goes out a campaigns his ass off.
People are so sick of him and his whiney wife that it will help Trump even more.
Let’s cut the crap with regurgitated well known treasonous actions by the Swamp. NOTHING will ever be done even as the GOP holds Executive and Senate.
Was Hunter registered as an agent for China?
OK! so they were received in the WH. I am more interested in what resulted from the WH meetings. Did they secure contracts, no-pay loans, contributions, government jobs, what happened?,
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