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   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-   
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   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-   
   influence 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   
   than warranted on issues ranging from fentanyl exports, espionage and   
   COVID-19 origins due to his family’s receipt of government funds.   
      
   Joe Biden interacted with an array of other foreign associates of his   
   family members.   
      
   As second son, Hunter organized dinners at Washington’s Cafe Milano in   
   2014 and 2015 featuring his father and his business associates from   
   Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine, he confirmed.   
      
   Joe and Hunter Biden were photographed at one of those dinners with a   
   group from Kazakhstan including Kenes Rakishev, who bought Hunter a   
   $142,000 sports car   
      
      
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