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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)
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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.
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