There is a long line of greedy dumbazzes trying to put together get-rich-quick schemes with China, and any number of third-world s*holes that sound legit - - but never have a chance of actually coming together. Hunter is at the peak of the dumbazz mountain and Tony B. got sucked into the scheme because of the Biden name. You can't spit near a Chinese SOE without hitting a "top communist" knucklehead.
It ain't treason to be stupid (Hunter, Jim & Joe), or make a stupid mistake (Tony).
Even if one cannot obtain a legal conviction, at the very least, it should factor into the court of public opinion for those who can understand what happened. This is appropriate given the timing.