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   On 2024-12-29, Leroy N. Soetoro  wrote:   
   > https://nypost.com/2024/12/27/us-news/feds-finally-release-photos-showing-   
   > then-vp-biden-meeting-son-hunters-china-biz-partners-days-before-he-   
   > leaves-office/   
   >   
   > WASHINGTON — The National Archives has finally released photos showing   
   > then-Vice President Biden meeting with two of first son Hunter Biden’s   
   > Chinese government-linked business partners — again proving that the   
   > president lied about not interacting with his family’s foreign patrons.   
   >   
   > The cache of photos, released long after their potential political   
   > salience and days before Biden retires on Jan. 20, also show Chinese   
   > President Xi Jinping grinning as then-Vice President Biden introduced his   
   > son during the same December 2013 trip to Beijing.   
   >   
   > The Xi-Hunter Biden encounter, which had not previously garnered much   
   > attention, appears to have been at a meal Hunter described in an email to   
   > his former associate Devon Archer as “pretty amazing” because his dad and   
   > China’s powerful authoritarian leader “were supposed to spend 2hrs   
   > together [but it] stretched to 7hrs. I think they are in love.”   
   >   
   > Xi was about two months into his ambitious “Belt and Road” foreign-   
   > influalt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.republicans,talk.polit   
   cs.guns,misc.immigration.usa,ence and investment campaign — and a Chinese   
   state-backed company   
   > aligned with that vision, BHR Partners, was in the process being co-   
   > launched by Hunter.   
   >   
   > The newly released photos, which would have been politically explosive if   
   > they were released during the now-closed House impeachment inquiry into   
   > alleged Biden family corruption, show the elder Biden shaking hands with   
   > incoming BHR Partners CEO Jonathan Li and greeting the company’s managing   
   > director Ming Xue.   
   >   
   > Joe Biden later wrote college recommendation letters for both of Li’s   
   > children and, according to Archer, greeted Li during a subsequent speaker-   
   > phone conversation when Hunter returned to Beijing.   
   >   
   > BHR Partners was officially registered as a company 12 days after Air   
   > Force Two landed in Beijing with the Biden family for that trip, the Wall   
   > Street Journal reported.   
   >   
   > The firm played an important role in foreign acquisitions for China,   
   > including the 2016 purchase of a Congolese cobalt mine from US and   
   > Canadian companies. Cobalt is used for electric car batteries.   
   >   
   > The troubled now-54-year-old first son held a 10% stake in BHR through at   
   > least part of his dad’s presidency and says he relinquished control to his   
   > “sugar brother” Kevin Morris, who has loaned Hunter a sum believed to top   
   > $6.5 million since meeting him at a 2019 Biden campaign fundraiser.   
   >   
   > The photos were released to the America First Legal Foundation in response   
   > to a transparency lawsuit.   
   >   
   > “AFL obtained the photos through our lawsuit against the National Archives   
   > and Records Administration (NARA), which was filed on September 8, 2022,”   
   > the group led by President-elect Donald Trump’s adviser Stephen Miller   
   > wrote on X.   
   >   
   > “NARA had planned to release these photographs on October 23, 2024 —   
   > thirteen days before Election Day. Lawyers and representatives for   
   > President Biden and President Obama delayed NARA’s release of these photos   
   > — as they did with other critical records — until after Election Day.”   
   >   
   > The latest release does not document Joe Biden’s alleged interactions with   
   > his son and brother James Biden’s associates from a second major Chinese   
   > state-linked company.   
   >   
   > Biden allegedly attended an early 2017 lunch at Washington’s Four Seasons   
   > hotel with CEFC China Energy’s chairman Ye Jianming, shortly before an   
   > initial $3 million flowed to a consortium of Biden family associates,   
   > former Biden family associate Rob Walker testified to Congress.   
   >   
   > Those funds were a thank-you for preliminary work done while Biden was   
   > still vice president, Walker said.   
   >   
   > Hunter Biden claimed in his impeachment inquiry testimony this year that   
   > he could not remember his father’s cameo at the lunch with Ye, who has   
   > since gone missing amid a purported anti-corruption campaign by Xi.   
   >   
   > A May 2017 email written by Biden family associate James Gilliar penciled   
   > in a 10% cut for the “big guy” in reference to Joe Biden and another   
   > former family associate, Tony Bobulinski, said he spoke with Joe Biden the   
   > same month about the CEFC venture.   
   >   
   > A further $5.1 million flowed directly to entities linked to Hunter and   
   > James Biden after Hunter wrote to a CEFC associate in July 2017 that he   
   > was “sitting here with my father” and expecting payment.   
   >   
   > The CEFC venture focused in part on Chinese attempts to purchase US   
   > natural gas.   
   >   
   > The fact that Joe Biden met with his son and brother James Biden’s foreign   
   > associates throughout his vice presidency and in the years that followed   
   > has been established by witness testimony — including Hunter’s own in   
   > February — though the president continued to deny it as he sought re-   
   > election.   
   >   
   > “I did not interact with their partners,” Biden told a Post reporter in   
   > March, about five months before mutinous fellow Democrats forced the   
   > incumbent to relinquish the party’s presidential nomination in July   
   > following a disastrous debate performance. Republicans then ended the   
   > impeachment inquiry in August with a report accusing Biden of abusing his   
   > power.   
   >   
   > “You didn’t have dinner or lunch or coffee?” The Post followed up,   
   > referring to witness testimony to the contrary from the first family’s   
   > former business associates.   
   >   
   > “No,” the president said.   
   >   
   > Last December, Biden similarly denied interacting with his son and   
   > brother’s partners, saying: “I did not. And it’s just a bunch of lies.   
   > They’re lies. I did not. They’re lies” — when asked about an Associated   
   > Press poll finding that almost 70% of Americans, including 40% of   
   > Democrats, believed he acted either illegally or unethically in regards to   
   > his family’s business interests.   
   >   
   > Hunter Biden confirmed a number of interactions between his father and his   
   > business associates, including the handshake with Li, but argued in his   
   > impeachment inquiry testimony that they were brief.   
   >   
   > Republicans accuse Biden of deceiving the public about his role in his   
   > family’s foreign consulting work and both Trump and House Speaker Mike   
   > Johnson (R-La.) claimed that Biden took a softer approach toward China   
      
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