Posted on 08/09/2021 2:23:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Biden family's lucrative financial relationships with the Chinese are undeniable, but now it appears that the Renaissance man, Hunter Biden, toast of the art world, has even taken a leaf from the Deng Xioaping playbook on graft.
In the 1980s, Deng Xiaoping was the chief foreign and domestic policy maker and paramount leader of the Chinese Communist Party. He held sway well into the 1990s. Deng's secret sauce was a ladleful of authoritarian communism with a dash of capitalism shaken in by privileged gang members.
Deng's own family set the example, with his kids educated in the ritziest schools and waited on by servants in opulent settings. Kids: He had five of them, though he engineered the "One-Child Policy" for his comrades. Daughter Xiao Rong was personal assistant to her ailing dad, who was mostly deaf. She would convey his garbled speech to listeners.
Alas, Deng and his children were sometimes chided for "trading on their family connections[.] ... In keeping with the traditional Chinese strategy of spreading the risk, Deng's offspring have diversified into politics, business and the arts[.] ... 'Politics is always uncertain, and to have the various sons and daughters split into various economic sectors is a way of protecting the family,' explained one longtime China analyst. 'Whoever does well has obligations to the rest of the family.'"
Daughter Deng Lin became a wildly successful artist, amazingly developing her skills after work on a farm and in a soy sauce factory. One buyer, a real estate mogul from abroad, bought five of her pieces and then found himself able to build a shopping mall in Beijing. "Foreign investors seemed anxious to curry favor" with Deng Lin (and family); as journalist Jan Wong says,
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Come on Dementia Joe, tell us again how proud you are of Hunter.
What kind of father would let his son do these things?
Oh come on!
He (Biden) is learning from the best! 8<)
Amazing how the bad-but-expensive-artist-as-child-of-president is being ignored though, isn’t it?
Now we know his target “customer” base.
Painted by Chinese for Hunter to sell to Chinese.
Spitting paint on paper is not art.
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