The Bidens: "Stone Cold Crooked" (6) -- What Did China Get For Its Money?

On July 27 (last Thursday), Representative James Comer of Kentucky appeared on Senator Ted Cruz’s podcast. Comer is the Chair of the House Oversight Committee, and the guy who has subpoenaed, and little-by-little is getting, the bank records of transfers from foreign governments to Biden family companies. Late that evening, Twitchy posted about an 8 minute clip from the podcast of Comer discussing some of the things his subpoenas had uncovered. Comer particulrly discusses one large payment from a Chinese government-connected entity, much of which went to various Bidens.

Separately on the same day, July 27, Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio released on Twitter (or is it now “X”?) a thread that he called “The Facebook Files, Part I.” Jordan, in addition to being the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, also serves as Chair of is Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Government. In that capacity, Jordan had received a trove of internal Facebook communications documenting pressure from the White House to suppress various true information, notably information relating to the origin of the Covid virus in the Chinese Wuhan laboratory. The Wall Street Journal on July 28 had further reporting on the Facebook emails newly released by Jordan’s Subcommittee.

In other words, we’re starting to learn what China got in return for its investment in the Bidens.

I can’t find a transcript of the Comer appearance on Cruz’s podcast, but you can watch it at the Twitchy link, and in addition, the Twitchy piece contains a summary of what Comer said, posted on Twitter by a user going by the handle @KanekoaTheGreat.

Much of Comer’s discussion deals with the remarkable fact that some six major U.S. banks have filed no fewer than 170 Suspicious Activity Reports with respect to transactions conducted by Biden family members. (Comer specifically mentions JPM Chase, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America as among the banks that filed the SARs.). Comer (who says he is a former bank director) then says that filing of even two SAR reports as to an individual could make it difficult for that individual to open a bank account. (I’m not sure that that is true. However, I have several ex-colleagues who went on to become bank regulatory lawyers, and all of them have told me that the filing of a SAR against someone is by no means a routine step. So I have no doubt that 170 is truly extraordinary.)

Rep. Comer highlighted one specific SAR linked to a $3 million wire from China to Biden's business partner, Rob Walker. This money was received in an inactive account that had maintained a $50,000 balance for ten years before the significant wire transaction from China. Within just 24 hours of receiving the wire, Walker initiated incremental payments to several Biden shell companies, eventually disbursing funds to four different Biden family members.

I guess you might understand why the sudden receipt of $3 million from China into an account that had otherwise been largely dormant might have caught the bank’s attention.

And now over to the almost simultaneous revelations from Rep. Jordan’s Weaponization Subcommittee.

Jordan’s revelations include texts of internal Facebook emails that document pressure from the administration, and specifically from the White House itself, to remove certain posts. One April 2021 email authored by Nick Clegg (Facebook’s President of Global Affairs) describes the technique used by one White House staffer by the name of Andy Slavitt (a Senior Advisor to President Biden) to induce Facebook to delete posts:

[Slavitt] was outraged — not too strong a word to describe his reaction — that we did not remove this post.

The particular post referred to there apparently remained up; but there were plenty of other posts that were removed in response to such White House pressure. From the WSJ:

Facebook removed content related to Covid-19 in response to pressure from the Biden administration, including posts claiming the virus was man-made, according to internal company communications viewed by The Wall Street Journal. The emails show Facebook executives discussing how they managed users’ posts about the origins of a pandemic that the administration was seeking to control.

The WSJ notes that the White House’s excuse for its conduct in seeking to have Facebook posts suppressed and/or deleted was that “its discussions were aimed at promoting the adoption of vaccines and other public-health goals.”

Well, maybe you could make that argument about seeking to have information suppressed regarding, for example, effectiveness or side effects of the vaccines. That conduct would still be unconstitutional and reprehensible in my view, but at least the argument makes sense. But how about suppression of the lab leak theory of Covid origin? Nothing about whether the lab leak theory is right or wrong goes to the question of whether taking the vaccine, or following other public health recommendations (like masks or lockdowns) is a good idea.

No, the suppression of the lab leak theory of Covid origins is purely a question of not making the Chinese rulers look bad. So why would the U.S. government get involved in any way in trying to make the Chinese rulers look good, right after they had unleashed Covid upon the world? One theory is that the President was paid off. The evidence for that theory is rather strong. Is there another theory?

I do not get why people have this BELIEF that government is somehow objective, consistent, transparent, and non partisan?

The heads of all departments and agencies are hand chosen political hacks. They are appointments and their boss is the President.

They in turn choose the top beurocracts within these organizations which surround them.

Finally, all these organizations get funded by the House.

Government is a political apparatus.

EVERY decision made by government has political consideration given to it. It’s the very nature of government.

Is any of this new? https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/04/archives/new-jersey-pages-fbi-is-accused-of-political-acts-for-6-presidents.html

It’s only that the scope of government has expanded over time. Today, government manages school lunches, what health care you get, how much water your toilet uses per flush, what light bulb you get to use, what car you drive... As government powers expand more into the lives of people, the more games are played where like with Covid (public health - total BS) they tell churches and schools to close (but abortion clinics can stay open), small business to close, public parks to close, restaurant need to close, but Walmart and the other big retailers can stay open.

Covid was election politics and J6 was a modern day political purge. Folks need to realize government is not their buddy and these organizations serve their own interests and those they work for, NOT the American public.

Foxnews.com

Hunter Biden secured dinner for client at Chinese Embassy
following luncheon hosted by VP Biden, emails show
The investors dinner at the Chinese Embassy was promoted
on China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs website
By Cameron Cawthorne , Jessica Chasmar | Fox News

FIRST ON FOX: Hunter Biden was instrumental in helping a Rosemont Seneca Partners client and Democratic donor secure an event at the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., after networking with one of the top officials at the embassy during a January 2011 luncheon hosted by then-Vice President Biden, according to emails reviewed and verified by Fox News Digital.

Those emails show that Hunter and his former business partner, Eric Schwerin, helped Marvin Lang, the managing director of Guardian Realty in Maryland, plan a dinner with the Chinese Embassy’s minister, Deng Hongbo, on April 28, 2011, which was later touted on China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs website.

Planning for the event appears to have started in December 2010 after Lang, who has donated tens of thousands of dollars to Democrats, emailed Hunter thanking him for meeting him for lunch and saying he was “excited” to form a “long relationship” with Rosemont, Hunter and Schwerin’s now-defunct investment firm. Guardian bills itself as a “fully integrated real estate investment company that develops, redevelops, acquires, manages, operates, and owns a portfolio A-/B+ commercial office space,” according to their website.

link-—HUNTER BIDEN HELPED FORMER BIDEN AIDE WITH HOUSE
CAMPAIGN WHILE WORKING WITH HIS CCP-TIED BUSINESS PARTNER

In December 2010, Marvin Lang thanked Hunter Biden for meeting him for lunch and said his company is excited to “work with Rosemont Seneca Partners, LLC and look forward to a long relationship.” (Fox News Digital)

After some back-and-forth discussion between Hunter, Schwerin and Lang about possible venues for the event, Hunter emailed Schwerin on Jan. 12, 2011, saying, “Marvin wants to know where we are in on finding space for the dinner— Chinese embassy is his #1 choice.”

One week later, Schwerin sent an email to Lang that cc’d Hunter, saying Hunter had a lunch that included the “number three official” at the Chinese Embassy and that he could be “helpful” in securing the location for the Guardian Realty dinner.

“[I] just talked to Hunter and he said he sat with the number three official at the Embassy today at lunch and has contact information to follow up after the [Chinese] President has left the U.S.,” Schwerin wrote. “Hunter’s said his contact will be helpful, but the Minister won’t be able to focus on this until after the delegation has left at the end of the week. Sounds like this is the right contact though.”

Eric Schwerin, who was formerly Hunter Biden’s business partner, told Marvin Lang in a January 2011 email that a “number three official” at the Chinese Embassy would be “helpful” in helping Lang secure the Chinese Embassy for a dinner for his company. (Fox News Digital)

Based on emails and news articles reviewed by Fox News Digital, the lunch that Schwerin is referring to in the email was the luncheon that then-Vice President Biden and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hosted for Hu Jintao, China’s president at the time, in the State Department’s Benjamin Franklin Room on Jan. 19, 2011.

One of the emails that Schwerin sent to Hunter late at night the night before the luncheon said that Hunter was sitting at the same table as Ron Klain, who was the chief of staff for Vice President Biden until the end of January 2011 and is currently Biden’s chief of staff.

Eric Schwerin, Hunter Biden’s business partner at the time, informed Hunter in a January 2011 email that he would be seated at the same table as the “#3 at the [Chinese] Embassy” and said the official would be “the guy to ask for Guardian.” (Fox News Digital)

Eric Schwerin, Hunter Biden’s business partner at the time, informed Hunter in a January 2011 email that Vice President Biden would be at the “head table” with JK, which appears to be John Kerry, and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. (Fox News Digital)

link-JOE BIDEN MET WITH AT LEAST 14 OF HUNTER’S
BUSINESS ASSOCIATES WHILE VICE PRESIDENT

On Jan. 28, 2011, Zhou Jingxing, counselor and deputy director at the Chinese Embassy, responded to Hunter Biden’s email regarding his correspondence with “Minister Yang,” which appears to be referring to Yang Jiechi, who served as foreign minister from 2007 until 2013. Jiechi, who has been a member of the Chinese Communist Party since 1971, was elevated in 2017 to the Politburo, making him among the most influential and powerful officials in all of China.

The Chinese Embassy did not respond to multiple Fox News Digital requests for comment on this.

“Minister Yang asked me to follow up with you directly. You will be receiving a formal request from Guardian’s Chairman, Marvin Lang, shortly but I wanted to put forward some dates that work on their end: May 5, 12, or 19,” Hunter Biden wrote. “We look forward to working with you and thank you for your help and consideration.”

In January 2011, Hunter Biden emailed multiple Chinese Embassy officials about securing the embassy for a dinner on behalf of Guardian Realty. (Fox News Digital)

Jingxing said they would “check with the Embassy logistics to see if the dining room is available on your proposed dates.”

In February, Lang started expressing concerns that the Chinese Embassy hadn’t yet confirmed a date. “We really need the approval for dinner in writing,” he would write to Schwerin.

Schwerin emailed Hunter on Feb. 28, 2011, saying Guardian Realty was getting “nervous” that the Chinese would back out at the last minute and was requesting a written confirmation letter. Schwerin asked Hunter if people at the Turkish Embassy were “nice” in case the dinner had to be moved there.

Hunter warned Schwerin that Lang’s insistence on obtaining a confirmation letter was “running the risk of seriously offending the Chinese.”

In February 2011, Hunter Biden warned Eric Schwerin that Marvin Lang’s insistence on obtaining a confirmation letter for his dinner at the Chinese Embassy was “running the risk of seriously offending the Chinese.” (Fox News Digital)

Schwerin later assured Lang in early March 2011 that Hunter had confirmed the dinner with the embassy and that “we should be good going forward.”

“After our call yesterday, Hunter reached out to Minister Yang and Counselor Zhou and thanked them both for arranging the dinner, said he was looking forward to seeing them both at the dinner and reiterating our interest in having the Ambassador there,” Schwerin wrote. “It should have been clear how important this was to Hunter and Guardian, so we should be good going forward.”

In March 2011, Eric Schwerin later assured Marvin Lang that Hunter had confirmed the dinner with the embassy and that “we should be good going forward.” (Fox News Digital)

Circa 2011-—Biden’s significant China tour after 32 years
2011-08-17 05:22

by Wu Liming, Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in New York

BEIJING, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will visit China on Wednesday, 32 years after he first came to China as a member of the first U.S. delegation following the normalization of China-U.S. relations.

Biden has witnessed the ups and downs of the bilateral ties between the two countries over the past three decades and more. When he set foot on China in 1979, the two countries had just ended decades of hostility and signed a joint communique establishing diplomatic relations, setting the cornerstone for bilateral ties.

By the time Chinese President Hu Jintao visited the United States in January this year, the relationship between both countries had grown into a cooperative partnership based on mutual respect and common interest.

Biden’s current visit to China may well be considered a continuation and extension of his China tour 32 years ago. It is a relay of the drive to deepening the U.S.-China relations.

“A rising China is a positive, positive development, not only for China but for America and the world writ large,” wrote Biden 32 years ago as a young member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Addressing the opening session of the U.S.-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue in May, Biden said he still maintained his words from over three decades ago.

Thanks to the efforts from both sides, China-U.S.relations have gained tremendous momentum in the 21st century. Bilateral cooperation have extended to a wide range of fields including politics, economy, science, culture and other major international and regional issues.

Just as Biden himself put it, “It’s no exaggeration to say that our relationship and how we manage it will help shape the 21st century.”

The United States and China are the first and second biggest economies in the world, with close economic ties.

According to U.S. statistics, the United States exported over 110 billion U.S. dollars’ worth of goods and service to China last year, which helped to create more than 500,000 jobs in the United States.

With a combined share of one-third of the world’s economy and one-fifth of the world’s trade volume, China and the United States share ties that go beyond their boundaries and have profound global impact.

The international community would be more than happy to see China and the United States join hands to tackle global challenges and strive for a robust, sustainable and balanced world economy.

Exchange of high-level visits across the Pacific Ocean had served to promote China-U.S. relations. The New York Times said in a recent article that Biden’s coming China tour is aimed primarily to consolidate ties with the Chinese leadership.

It is true that China and the United States have differences. However, the two countries’ common interest far outweighs their differences. Or as Biden put it, “We have much more to agree on than to disagree on.”

If they adhere to the principle of equality and mutual respect, the two countries will be able to broaden their common ground and manage to handle properly the thorny issues between them.

As the United States’ largest foreign creditor, China has much at stake over U.S. economic policy changes and a stable U.S. dollar. Therefore, Washintong’s handling of all the related issues in a responsible manner will contribute to the steady growth of China-U.S. ties and the stable development of the world economy given the mounting concern about European and U.S. debt woes and fragile global economic recovery.

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