I am writing to invite you to a cross-border banquet to celebrate our acquisition of Henniges Automotive. We consummated the transaction earlier this month, in conjunction with our strategic partner, AVIC, for $600 million. I have also attached a news article about the transaction.
This milestone marks our first U.S.-based acquisition. Our strategic partners, including AVIC and Sinopec, will be in attendance, as will our investors, including the Bank of China and China Development Bank. We hope to discuss the opportunities and challenges of cross-border investments for Chinese companies in today’s macro environment. A member of our team has also extended an invitation to your economics advisor – Jonathan Fritz – to speak at the seminar.
Lost among the salacious revelations about laptop provenance is the more mundane reality of influence and money of major United States political figures. Ill-informed accusations of Russian hacking and disinformation face the documented reality of a major Chinese state financial partnership with the children of major political figures. A report by an Asian research firm raises worrying questions about the financial links between China and Hunter Biden.
According to the report Hunter Biden made incredible profits for essentially doing nothing, including a tidy sum off of a copper mine in the Congo and another healthy bundle for allowing the Bank of China to allocate its share of an IPO in Hong Kong to his venture capital firm, BHR. So he’s either the world’s savviest investor or there are some shenanigans/influence-peddling going on.Beginning just before Joe Biden’s ascendancy to the Vice Presidency, Hunter Biden was traveling to Beijing meeting with Chinese financial institutions and political figures would ultimately become his investors. Finalized in 2013, the investment partnership included money from the Chinese government, social security, and major state-owned banks a veritable who’s who of Chinese state finance.
It is not simply the state money that should cause concern but the structures and deals that took place. Most investment in specific projects came from state-owned entities and flowed into state-backed projects or enterprises.
Balding, an American who lived in China for nine years, says of the report’s veracity:The entire arrangement speaks to Chinese state interests. Meetings were held at locations that in China speak to the welcoming of foreign dignitaries or state to state relations. The Chinese organizations surrounding Hunter Biden are known intelligence and influence operatives to the United States government. The innocuous names like Chinese People’s Institute for Foreign Affairs exist to “…carry out government-directed policies and cooperative initiatives with influential foreigners without being perceived as a formal part of the Chinese government.”
Among the other revelations in the report:I did not write the report and I am not responsible for the report. I have gone over the report with a fine-tooth comb and can find nothing factually wrong with the report. Everything is cited and documented. Arguably the only weakness is that we do not have internal emails between Chinese players or the Chinese and Bidens that would make explicit what the links clearly imply.
Having lived in China for nine years throughout the Xi regime’s construction of concentration camps and having witnessed first hand their use of influence and intelligence operations, the Biden links worry me profoundly.
The entire report can be read here.Whether Joe Biden personally knew the details, a very untenable position, it is simply political malpractice to not be aware of the details of these financial arrangements. These documentable financial links simply cannot be wished away.
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, Fox News has learned.
An email exclusively obtained by Fox News, with the subject line “Phase one domestic contacts/ projects” and dated May 15, 2017, Biden’s brother, Jim Biden, shared a list of “key domestic contacts for phase one target projects.”
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The list, included Harris, D-Calif.; Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.; New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo; New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio; former Virginia Gov. Terry McCauliffe, among others.
Last week, the New York Post revealed Hunter Biden’s venture in China, citing emails in which he said that a deal could be “interesting for me and my family” and that 10% of the equity in a new firm would be “held … for the big guy.”It is unclear if any of the Democrats were ever contacted about the “target projects.”
Though Biden has tried to dismiss recent stories about Hunter Biden’s emails as a “smear” campaign, no one has yet disputed the authenticity of the emails released by the Post, Breitbart News, Fox News, and others.The Biden family partners are often foreign governments, where the deals occur in the dark corners of international finance like Kazakhstan, China, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Ukraine, and Russia. Some deals have even involved U.S. taxpayer money. The cast of characters includes sketchy companies, violent convicted felons, foreign oligarchs, and other people who typically expect favors in return.
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The Biden family’s apparent self-enrichment depends on Joe Biden’s political influence and involves no less than five family members: Joe’s son Hunter, daughter Ashley, brothers James and Frank, and sister Valerie.
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The Bidens leverage political power not only for generating deals, but also for the opportunities to quietly develop the financial resources of wealthy friends for the benefit of the family. Friends that help the Bidens can count on Joe to grant them governmental favors.
Biden to @WISN12News on @RonJohnsonWI's Hunter Biden investigation"This is the same garbage -- Rudy Giuliani Trump's henchmen. It's a last-ditch effort in this desperate campaign to smear me and my family.""Ron should be ashamed of himself." pic.twitter.com/cZ2vcKSh2r— Johnny Verhovek (@JTHVerhovek) October 21, 2020
On Monday, there were two big developments in the last 24 hours. First, Fox News got a hold of a receipt from the laptop repair shop that allegedly shows the name and signature of Hunter Biden, whose father, Joe Biden, is the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee and a former vice president.
Undermine the Rule of Law?!Schumer sends letter to FBI director to ignore Biden scandal, says investigation could ‘undermine the rule of law’
A Vision of a Victorian Mansion
March 7, 2012 at 8:23 AMPublic
I had a vision of a large Victorian style mansion.
It was a magnificent, palatial and massive residence. It was painted white with blue trim and red shutters. There was a large turret on the left side of it, with windows at the top. There was a porch that surrounded the house on every side with rocking chairs out front.
Lush landscaping and potted hanging flowerpots adorned the porch and there was an expansive lawn that was immaculate and large live oak trees that looked over 200 years old could be seen all over the property. It was a perfect day, and this mansion looked impeccable as the afternoon sunlight cascaded through the trees as I walked towards it.
It was the most beautiful house I had ever seen. There was not one flaw in the exterior. It looked freshly painted and a large American flag was hung on a suspended wooden rod extending from the left wood column at the top of the entrance stairs to the porch. I couldn’t help noticing that the flag colors were perfectly mirrored in the color design of the exterior.
There were the red shutters that framed the floor to ceiling windows on the first story, and also the windows in the two upper stories. The trim and the porch were painted dark blue, and the house was creamy white.
I just stood and looked at it for some time. I heard the voice of the Lord say, “Son, do you know what this is?” I said, “It looks like a turn of the century Victorian home in perfect condition.” Then he said, “This is the United States of America”. All is not as it looks. For it is being eaten and destroyed from within.” Then the Lord said, “LOOK!”
For a long while, I didn’t see anything new – just a perfect day; a gentle breeze; and a wonderful view of this perfect mansion.
Then, all of a sudden, I seemed to zoom in towards the house rapidly.
Like a movie, I seemed to move toward the house and focused on the floor/foundation.
Then, I noticed that the house was suspended on brick and had about twenty to thirty small supports that held it up. I was under the house now looking at the floor, which I saw was all wood with long heavy beams going from front to back. At first it looked fine, but then my eyes seemed to adjust and I began to see that there was decay and holes in the beams. I saw mildew and rotten areas in parts of those beams.
Then, I seemed to go right into the floor from the bottom. What I saw shocked me. It was like a horror movie. I saw into the inside of the floor. I was “in” it now. There were thousands of termites and other hideous looking insects eating the wood out from the inside. I was moving rapidly now through the floorboards. Everywhere I looked the wooden foundation was nearly eaten out from the inside. I could hear the termites chewing…just armies of them…in almost military precision. Everywhere I looked, it was nearly eaten away. The massive beams that held the house up were hollowed out from the inside. I saw that it would soon collapse, for the wood was nearly gone.
Then, I somehow went straight up inside the right wall and followed the path of these hideous termite insects. They looked like demons with pincers on the front of their heads like crab claws. They were just tearing the wood off a piece at a time and eating it. I seemed to be the same size as they were. They looked huge to me, but I knew they were actually small. There were millions and millions them. I knew that this wall wouldn’t be there much longer. Then, I seemed to move very quickly through the inside of the attic ceiling, across the top of the house, and down the back. It was infested in every part, but the back was the worst. I knew it wouldn’t be long before these terrible bugs would eat their way out to the exterior. There was hardly any wood left.
Then, I suddenly “zoomed” out of the house, and I was once again standing about 25 feet away where I had been before. Again, it looked so pristine and beautiful. Not one blemish could be seen on the outside.
Then the Lord said, “Watch.”
Suddenly, the stairs to the front porch just cracked right down the middle, and the whole house seemed to fall into itself. It just cracked right down the middle! The whole house shuddered, and that crack went all the way down. The house just sagged in the middle, but remained standing.
Then, about five minutes later, cracks started appearing all over the walls, and those terrible termites started crawling and swarming the outside exterior. They were devouring the shutters, then the trim, and then there were so many you could hardly see the white paint. Then, the house collapsed into itself. The walls imploded and the roof began to collapse. At every crack, those hideous bugs just swarmed out by the thousands and covered the roof. The walls held out for some time, though they were no longer standing straight. They were slanted in at almost a forty-five degree angle. Then, finally, the whole house just collapsed on itself in a heap of ruins and the termites just swarmed over the top of it like it was a massive ant hill.
Then the Lord said, “America is being eaten from within. Its’ days are numbered.
There are three parts in its’ financial collapse.
The first crack in the foundation happened in September of 2008.
The collapse of the walls is the second drop in the dollar soon to come.
The dollar will lose 30% more of its’ value.
Then the whole financial system will crumble and all of America’s wealth will be devoured.
But, during this terrible time I will visit America again. A third Great Awakening will come.
But, the days of America’s glory and beauty will never again be seen.
My judgment shall come swiftly upon all those that have turned their backs to Me.”
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China killed or imprisoned 18 to 20 CIA sources from 2010 to 2012, hobbling U.S. spying operations in a massive intelligence breach whose origin has not been identified, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
Investigators remain divided over whether there was a spy within the Central Intelligence Agency who betrayed the sources or whether the Chinese hacked the CIA’s covert communications system, the newspaper reported, citing current and former U.S. officials.
The Chinese killed at least a dozen people providing information to the CIA from 2010 through 2012, dismantling a network that was years in the making, the newspaper reported.
One was shot and killed in front of a government building in China, three officials told the Times, saying that was designed as a message to others about working with Washington.
The breach was considered particularly damaging, with the number of assets lost rivaling those in the Soviet Union and Russia who perished after information passed to Moscow by spies Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen, the report said. Ames was active as a spy in the 1980s and Hanssen from 1979 to 2001.
Tonight, the group of individuals in Asia who released a number of Hunter Biden videos and pictures made a very significant claim. At the end of one of their videos, those who released the videos shared the following:The CIA declined to comment when asked about the Times report on Saturday.
Seeing posts on the CCP's 3F and BGY Strategy being outlined to take down America from within for decades.Must be a VERY busy week at Twitter. They're going to have to get more help.
I am the CEO of Sinohawk Holdings which was a partnership between the Chinese operating through CEFC/Chairman Ye and the Biden family. I was brought into the company to be the CEO by James Gilliar and Hunter Biden. The reference to “the Big Guy” in the much publicized May 13, 2017 email is in fact a reference to Joe Biden. The other “JB” referenced in that email is Jim Biden, Joe’s brother.
Hunter Biden called his dad “the Big Guy” or “my Chairman,” and frequently referenced asking him for his sign-off or advice on various potential deals that we were discussing. I’ve seen Vice President Biden saying he never talked to Hunter about his business. I’ve seen firsthand that that’s not true, because it wasn’t just Hunter’s business, they said they were putting the Biden family name and its legacy on the line.
I realized the Chinese were not really focused on a healthy financial [return on invesment]. They were looking at this as a political or influence investment...
If it’s true that Joe Biden was accepting influence payments, including from Chinese entities, then he should immediately quit the presidential race. But the press has been largely uninterested in pursuing this story. Today Newsweek’s Jason Lemon made an effort and writes:The Biden family aggressively leveraged the Biden family name to make millions of dollars from foreign entities even though some were from communist controlled China.
The recent media blackout on the Biden family business remains largely intact. The story did get a mention in a weekly newsletter from the public editor at National Public Radio. Beginning around paragraph 16, Kelly McBride addresses a listener’s question:Newsweek reached out to the Joe Biden presidential campaign and Hunter Biden’s lawyer for comment, but they did not respond by the time of publication.
Ms. McBride then spends a paragraph disparaging the Post and clinging to the hope that the emails are not legitimate before acknowledging:Carolyn Abbott writes: Someone please explain why NPR has apparently not reported on the Joe Biden, Hunter Biden story in the last week or so that Joe did know about Hunter’s business connections in Europe that Joe had previously denied having knowledge?
But the biggest reason you haven’t heard much on NPR about the Post story is that the assertions don’t amount to much.
This column warned yesterday that if the Post reporting continued to hold up, some media folk might quickly pivot from arguing that the revelations were so damning they must be part of a hostile Russian intelligence operation against the United States to arguing that actually the Biden emails aren’t damning at all. Just typical swamp behavior?“We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions,” NPR Managing Editor for News Terence Samuel told me. “And quite frankly, that’s where we ended up, this was … a politically driven event and we decided to treat it that way.”
View: https://twitter.com/d0gmah/status/1320432383074672648McDaniel on Hunter Biden: If this was the Trump family, it'd be on the news 24/7
HANNITY: All right. So, we can bifurcate for people. This is all separate from what The New York Post was reporting this week. This is separate from what we knew earlier, and it’s separate from Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley’s report that they put out, 87 pages, which talked about, well, Russian oligarchs, Kazakh oligarchs, the $3.5 million payment with the former first lady of Moscow, Chinese nationals, $100,000 shopping spree, Russian nationals, Kazakhs nationals, Ukrainian nationals.
How much money are we talking about here, and were all three of them involved in all of these endeavors?
SCHWEIZER: Well, it kind of jumps around, but let me just make clear, these are all separate emails from The New York Post and what the Senate did, but they all reinforce the same.
I mean, to take, for example, Ms. Baturina, the Russian oligarch links to organized crime that the Senate sent $3.5 million based on Treasury Department documents, we will be rolling out a story in a couple of days demonstrating that their relationship, meaning Hunter and Devon Archer’s relationship with Elena Baturina goes way back and they were performing a number of banking and other financial services for her, services that they had trouble doing, by the way, because several banks did not want to work with her because the money was seen as dirty.
HANNITY: So, literally, these nationals were allowed access to Biden inside the White House according to these emails. I guess my next question is if both of Hunter’s business partners are convicted, how did he go scot-free?
SCHWEIZER: Well, that’s the question, Sean. There was a trial in 2016, and we actually, I’ve gone through the notes of that trial, and what it demonstrates is that Hunter Biden’s fingerprints are all over this. He has named repeatedly in the court trials, but he was never charged by the prosecutors in New York.
Hunter Biden then pledged to consult with Joe Biden’s Chief of Staff Steve Richetti about a potential appointment for his family members.
Roughly one year later, Valerie Owens was nominated by the Obama-Biden administration to be an Alternate Representative of the United States to the 71st Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
The news flies in the face of the idea that Hunter Biden remained separate and apart from his father’s work as Vice President – a claim often made by Joe Biden and his campaign.
Owens is the niece of Joe Biden, who, after a brief stint in the Obama White House joined Coca-Cola as a multi-million dollar lobbyist and government relations specialist.
Biden's former business partner turned whistleblower, Tony Bobulinski, has also turned over text messages showing that Joe Biden met with Hunter's business associates regarding Chinese legal documents. A few days after that meeting, Hunter Biden sent an email outlining a payment scheme, including "10 held by H[unter] for the big guy."Schwerin – who Missy refers to as “our Eric” – has deep business ties to the Biden family, as a Partner at Hunter’s lobbying firm Oldaker, Biden & Belair and a Founding Partner and Managing Director at Rosemont Seneca Partners. Schwerin later became President of Rosemont Seneca – the notorious company founded by Hunter which partnered with Chinese state-owned banks on a $1.5 billion investment fund and a host of other million-dollar deals with Chinese Communist Party-linked companies.
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Hunter responded two days later, revealing that Eric “asked” for an appointment “the day after the election in 2008,” a request that evidently materialized. Hunter also promises to “go through the list with Steve and see what makes sense,” appearing to reference Steve Richetti, Biden’s Chief of Staff and current campaign Senior Advisor, to find a potential position for Valerie Biden Owens.
Joe Biden has denied Bobulinski’s allegations.Hunter Biden called his dad ‘the Big Guy’ or ‘my Chairman,’ and frequently referenced asking him for his sign-off or advice on various potential deals that we were discussing. I’ve seen Vice President Biden saying he never talked to Hunter about his business. I’ve seen firsthand that that’s not true, because it wasn’t just Hunter’s business, they said they were putting the Biden family name and its legacy on the line.