Posted on 03/06/2020 9:37:20 AM PST by weston
This was back a few years. 2017.
The new owner of the Mountain Pass rare earths mine in California is MP Mine Operations LLC – an American-led consortium, with Chinese rare earths miner Leshan Shenghe Rare Earth Co. holding a non-voting minority interest.
Did you know:
According to a new study, if China had acted 3 weeks earlier than they did, instead of lying, the number of COVID-19 cases could have been reduced by 95% and geographic spread could have been limited
So yes, it IS the Chinese Virus.
RT to expose the TRUTH!— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) March 18, 2020
Put this into perspective
If the Coronavirus shuts down Planned Parenthood for even one day, it will have saved more lives than it took.— Educating Liberals (@Education4Libs) March 19, 2020
I spend 3 weeks auditing them when they were owned by Unocal.
I loved it the first way around. It was such a quirky joke.
I was looking to see if Hunter Bidens firm had any connections, I did find this:
In December 2013, Hunter landed in Beijing aboard Air Force Two, accompanying his father on an official visit to China. Less than two weeks later, Hunter’s company, Rosemont Seneca, became a partner in a new investment company backed by the state-owned Bank of China.
Christening the new firm Bohai Harvest RST (BHR), the partners set out to raise $1 billion for the new fund.
Representatives of the Biden family have denied any connection between the vice president’s visit and Hunter’s business. However, a BHR representative told The New Yorker earlier this year that Hunter used the opportunity to introduce his father to Chinese private equity executive Jonathan Li, who became CEO of BHR after the deal’s conclusion.
Despite his relative lack of private equity experience, Hunter landed a prominent role with the new company. Under the terms of the original deal, Rosemont Seneca, Hunter’s firm, shared a 30% stake in BHR with the Thornton Group, which was run by James Bulger, the son of longtime Massachusetts state Senate President Billy Bulger. Hunter and Bulger joined the board, along with Devon Archer, Hunter’s longtime business partner. Archer would also serve as vice chairman of the fund’s investment committee.
The value of these partnerships to BHR is clear. Its own website boasts: “BHR, with its unique mixed ownership, combines the resources and platforms of China’s largest financial institutions … and the networks and know-how of our U.S.-based investment fund and advisory firm shareholders.”
BHR’s relationships weren’t the only unique thing about the company. Rosemont Seneca was getting a piece of something that no other Western firm had: a private equity fund inside the recently established Shanghai Free-Trade Zone, with a focus on international acquisitions. With the backing of the state-owned Bank of China, one of the country’s “big four” financial institutions, BHR had access to the types of deals that most Western firms only dreamed of, including IPOs of state-owned companies
In December 2014, BHR became an “anchor investor” in the IPO of China General Nuclear Power Company (CGN), a state-owned nuclear company involved in the development of nuclear reactors. Not only is CGN a strategically important company in China, it was also facing legal scrutiny in the United States. In 2016, CGN was charged with espionage by the Justice Department for stealing US nuclear secrets.
As a “cross-border” investment fund, Bohai Harvest was interested in making deals outside of China. In 2015, BHR acquired Henniges Automotive, a Michigan-based producer of vibration-dampening equipment, alongside Chinese military contractor Aviation Industry Corp. of China (AVIC). Given the military applications of Henniges’ technology, the deal required federal approval. Like CGN, AVIC was suspected of stealing US technology for its purposes.
Not long after the Henniges deal closed, AVIC debuted its new J-20 fighter — incorporating designs allegedly stolen from the US’ F-35 program.
6. It wasn’t an isolated incident.
In 2015, a state-backed real estate conglomerate acquired a controlling stake in Rosemont Realty, a sister company of Rosemont Seneca where Hunter served as an advisor. As part of the deal, the Chinese promised $3 billion for commercial office property acquisitions in the US — a major windfall for the company.
It wouldn’t be Hunter’s last episode with Chinese capital. In May 2017, he met with Ye Jianming, chairman of Chinese energy company CEFC, to discuss investment opportunities in the US. After the meeting, Ye sent a 2.8-carat diamond to Hunter along with a “thank you” card. When, six months later, a CEFC executive was arrested in New York on unrelated bribery charges, his first phone call was to Hunter’s uncle, James Biden. James told the New York Times that “he believed it [the call] had been meant for Hunter” and that “he had passed on his nephew’s contact information.”
Ye, now accused of bribing a Communist Party official, has since been detained in his native China.
https://nypost.com/2019/10/10/6-facts-about-hunter-bidens-business-dealings-in-china/
Small world.
Beijing Fears COVID-19 Is Turning Point for China, Globalization
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The loss of revenue is astounding!
I’m glad your cataracts can wait.
Power of Prayer works.
Good News to share!
oh no, they can get it!! i wonder if vets would know what to do. now i’m more worried about him than me. Or even my elderly neighbors
It’s snowing here, whee!!!!!
Maybe I can do breakfast for dinner tomorrow. For some reason I decided to make seared shrimp with linguine in a lemon garlic sauce. Oh shoot, I should’ve used my fresh basil. I have this beautiful plant growing and I keep forgetting to use it because it’s nowhere near the kitchen. I wish I had a better memory....Today I found myself in the basement, couldn’t remember why I went there.
Makes perfect sense to me. Should I be worried? lol
Thank you for the post and link!
Thanks for all you do with updates.
Wow in our neck of the woods.
How tragic,to use this for a stupid so-call point.
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