DURING DEMOCRAT JOE BIDENS VICE PRESIDENTIAL TENURE, HIS 26-YEAR-OLD NIECE COORDINATED THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATIONS CHINA APPROACH AS A SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE TREASURY DEPARTMENTS U.S.-CHINA STRATEGIC AND ECONOMIC DIALOGUE.
Casey Owens, his sister's daughter, the latest member of the Biden family to benefit financially or professionally from the former Senators connections, joined the highest-level bilateral economic forum four years after graduating from college and a stint at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
She wielded considerable influence over the direction of U.S.-China relations between 2009 and 2011, as she described her team as advising former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and responsible for coordinat[ing] the priorities within the agenda for the Dialogue and spearhead[ing] the negotiations of proposals.
The appointment triggered no media furore, nor coverage, with the exception of a buried two-sentence mention in a New York Times article from this year.
The piece highlights Bidens penchant for exploiting political office to provide family members with jobs and lucrative contracts, though the criticism was arguably 12 years too late.
Biden, identified as one of the top five senators payments or contributions to a family businesses or employer in a 2008 Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics report, also funneled $3,618 from his 2002 Senate campaign fund to Owens.
An unearthed cable reveals Owens was part of the elite Strategic and Economic Dialogue II planning trip to Beijing as part of the Economic Track delegation alongside State and Treasury Executive and Senior officials. Despite being out of the administration for five years, she attended the Obama administrations final state dinner.
Her proximity to American and Chinese officials casts the rest of the familys China-based business dealings, chiefly those of Hunter Biden, in an interesting and, perhaps, suspicious light.
Hunter, along with other Obama officials offspring, notoriously ran investment firms that inked billion-dollar contracts with Chinese companies, including state-owned enterprises.
Many allege these deals only materialized due to his fathers position. In 2013, for example, then-Veep Biden and his son traveled via Air Force Two to China, and twelve days later, Hunter landed a $1 billion contract with a subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-run Bank of China.
The hiring decision serves as a cautionary tale for what the composition of a potential Biden administration could look like teeming with his family members while those in the private sector profit immensely.
Natalie Winters is an executive assistant to the editor, as well as a Senior Writing Fellow at the National Pulse. She has previously been published at the WarRoom.org website. (Excerpt) Read more at thenationalpulse.com ...
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The Missy Owens mentioned above is Joe's niece by his sister Valerie
Biden Center Under Investigation for Illegal Donations From China
DB Daily Update | David Blackmon Posted on 5/25/2020, 9:19:56 AM by EyesOfTX
If the label says Biden, it was definitely influenced by China. John Solomon at JustTheNews.com is reporting that The National Legal and Policy Center has asked the U.S. Department of Education to investigate its findings that the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) has over the past several years accepted more than $22 million in anonymous China-originated donations to its Biden Center and failed to properly disclose the contributions. >{? From Solomons report: The complaint, filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, says that over the past three years, the university has accepted around $22 million in anonymous funding from Chinese sources. Thats out of a total of more than $70 million from Chinese donors during that time, the NLPC said. Those significant funds, including the anonymous amounts, rolled in after the Biden Center was announced in early 2017 and launched in February 2018. The center is located in downtown Washington, D.C.
Federal records show that the University of Pennsylvania has received significant donations from China since the opening of the center. One 2018 donation alone totals $14.5 million; it is listed as anonymous in federal records. The NLPC alleges the university may have violated federal law in accepting those anonymous monetary donations. The Higher Education Act mandates schools report the national origins of any donations above $250,000 although not necessarily the individual names of donors themselves. [End] This serves as just one more reminder that Biden, his son and his brother have long been in the pockets of Chinese interests. The stark reality facing our country today is that, should Biden manage to win the election in November, all of the gains President Donald Trump has made through the sheer force of his will in terms of U.S./China relations and trade policy will be immediately reversed the day after Biden assumes office.
If you like the fact that virtually all U.S. antibiotics and PPE are sourced through China at some point along their supply chains and want it to stay that way, vote for Biden. Because that would be a fait accompli should he win. There are trillions of dollars at stake, and Creepy Uncle Quid Pro China Joe wants to ensure his family continues to get its fair share.