In newly released images, President Biden is shown meeting with Hunter Biden’s Chinese business colleagues in China while serving as vice president, calling into question his assertion that he “never” discussed business with his son.
The images, obtained by conservative organization America First Legal through litigation against the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), appear to show then-Vice President Biden introducing his son to Chinese President Xi Jinping and Vice President Li Yuanchao. Other images show Joe Biden posing with Hunter’s business acquaintances from BHR Partners, such as Jonathan Li and Ming Xue.
“These images shed light on the connections between then-Vice President Biden, Hunter and his Chinese business associates, and Chinese government officials including President Xi Jinping,” America First Legal stated in a press release earlier this week. “Lawyers and representatives for President Biden and President Obama delayed NARA’s release of these photographs, as they did with other records, until after Election Day.”
“These photos corroborate the House Oversight Committee’s investigative findings that Hunter Biden arranged for his father to meet with Jonathan Li and other BHR executives during the 2013 China trip, where ‘Mr. Li sought— and received — access to Vice President Biden’s political power, including, for example, preferential access to then-U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus … a condition of Hunter Biden and his associates participating in the BHR deal,'” the committee wrote.
According to the committee’s inquiry, “the Biden Family benefited from their business dealings with BHR.”
Earlier this year, the House Oversight Committee questioned Hunter Biden about his meetings while traveling to Asia with his father.
“When we returned from an event to the hotel, there was a rope line, and Jonathan Li was in the lobby of the hotel where I was going to meet him for coffee,” Hunter Biden shared at the time. “In that queue, I introduced my father to Jonathan Li and a friend of his, who shook hands and, I believe, took a photograph. And then my father went up to his room, while I went to have coffee with Jonathan Li.”
Hunter Biden also stated that he did not inform his father “anything” about who Li was.
Joe Biden has always denied any involvement in his son’s enterprises.
“I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” Joe Biden stated during the presidential campaign in 2019.
However, emails sent to and from Hunter Biden have cast doubt on this, including a 2017 email obtained by AWN in which Hunter requests keys for Joe and Jill Biden, as well as his uncle, Jim Biden, for space he intends to share with a “emissary” to the chairman of a now-bankrupt Chinese energy company.
In another 2017 email discovered by AWN, Biden wrote to the chairman of the same Chinese energy firm, sending “best wishes from the entire Biden family,” and pushing the chairman to “quickly” send a $10 million wire to “properly fund and operate” the Biden-company joint venture.
Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s former business partner and longtime friend, testified for hours before the House Oversight Committee in a closed-door hearing last year, contradicting the president’s claim that Hunter put his father on speakerphone while meeting with business partners at least 20 times.
Archer reported how Joe Biden was put on the phone to promote “the brand.”
The photographs sparked outrage on social media in light of President Biden’s frequent statements that he never talked business with his son.
“Astonishing,” Red State writer Bonchie commented on X.
“These photos are incredibly damning and speak volumes,” author and journalist Peter Schweizer stated on X.
“It is such a disgrace that only through litigation, and only at the conclusion of the Biden administration, is its corruption by ties to the Chinese Communist Party fully coming into focus,” Real Clear Politics writer Benjamin Weingarten wrote on X.
“The Biden Crime Family Christmas card just dropped,” Republican Rep. Eric Burlison wrote on X.
“China has the Bidens in its back pocket,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton wrote on X.
The newly discovered images of Bidens’ meeting with Hunter’s Chinese business associates raise new questions about an email exchange originally revealed by AWN Digital. According to the 2014 email exchange, Hunter Biden once stated that he would be “happy” to introduce his business associates to a top Chinese Communist Party official to discuss potential investments after the official allegedly sat at Hunter’s table during a 2013 dinner in Beijing to welcome his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden.
Hunter’s 2014 email discussion with James Bulger discussed the identical China trip mentioned in the America First Legal press release.
Bulger, also known as “Jimmy,” was the chairman of Boston-based Thornton Group LLC, which partnered with Hunter’s now-defunct Rosemont Seneca to form BHR Partners, a joint venture with Chinese investment firm Bohai Capital, shortly after the Bidens flew to China. BHR Partners is owned by Bank of China Limited.
In the 2014 email, Bulger asked Hunter to introduce BHR CEO Jonathan Li and Andy Lu, a BHR committee member, to “Mr. Tung,” a former Hong Kong governor and billionaire who served as vice chairman of the CCP-linked Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, to discuss “BHR investment targets” and “fundraising.”
According to the email, Hunter sat next to Tung at a dinner in December 2013 to welcome Vice President Joe Biden to Beijing. AWN Digital earlier contacted the White House several times, demanding the seating plan for the Beijing dinner, specifically Hunter’s table, but received no response.
“It is my understanding that during the trip to Beijing that you made with your father, President Xi hosted a welcome dinner,” Bulger said in an email. “[A]t that dinner, you were seated right next to Mr Tung, so J and Andy believe it would be very helpful if you could please send a brief email to Mr Tung stating that you are a partner and Board Member of BHR, and that you would appreciate it if Mr Tung could meet with your local partners to discuss the Fund.”
“Please let me know if you can introduce these two to Mr Tung by email it is very important to our BHR intiative [sic] at this moment.”
Hunter replied that he was “happy” to fulfill the request, but claimed he couldn’t remember the names of the people who sat next to him at the meal.
Bulger’s initial email appears to relate to a Beijing “welcome dinner” thrown by President Xi on the evening of December 4, 2013, after then-Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao met with Joe Biden earlier that day to discuss boosting US-China relations.
President Biden pardoned his son earlier this month for suspected crimes dating back to 2014.
“Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter,” Biden said in a statement at the time. “From the day I took office, I promised not to meddle with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I watched my son be selectively and unfairly punished.
“There has been an effort to break Hunter — who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution,” wrote the dad, who is 82. “In trying to break Hunter, they’ve also tried to break me, and there’s no reason to suppose it will stop here. “Enough is enough.”
AWN Digital earlier contacted the White House to inquire about why the pardon was so broad, but received no response.
“Even while President Biden has pardoned his son, Hunter, for anything and everything ‘he has committed or may have committed or taken part in’ going all the way back to the year 2014, more evidence comes out each day showing how his family leveraged Joe Biden’s even longer career in public office for private gain,” legal counsel for America First, Michael Ding, said in a statement to reporters.
“America First Legal will not stop fighting to uncover the full story of the Biden Family’s corruption.”
AWN Digital reached out to the White House, Hunter Biden’s legal team, and the Chinese businessmen in the images, but received no response.
