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According to an explosive new book titled “Red-Handed,” author Peter Schweizer reveals that Hunter Biden received nearly $6 million in 2017 from a Chinese global energy company called CEFC China Energy.
Ye Jianming, who was the majority owner of CEFC China Energy, oversaw the deal. Biden had developed a close working relationship with Ye “on a number of fronts,” Schweizer writes.
The relationship began in 2015.
Text messages between Biden and his former partner Tony Bobulinski said that he spoke with Ye on a “regular basis.”
The book alleges there is a massive conflict of interest.
Ye had a number of ties to Chinese military intelligence. The offices of CEFC were in an area primarily controlled by China’s military. Ye’s former business partner was also the granddaughter of one of the founders of China’s military, Marshall Ye Jianying.
“Red-Handed” says Biden served as Ye’s personal counsel in the U.S.
“In brief, Hunter Biden was now the U.S. representative for an intelligence- and military-linked Chinese company that was supporting voices calling for an aggressive military posture against the United States and its allies,” Schweizer writes.
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But CEFC also had ambitions in the U.S. — which provided the opportunity for the $6 million payment…
In 2017, Hunter Biden made plans to house his businesses, one of his father’s offices for the Biden Foundation, and CEFC together in an office space in Washington. For his “new office mates,” Hunter listed: “Joe Biden Jill Biden Jim Biden Gongwen Dong (Chairman Ye CEFC emissary).”
Dong not only had notable ties to those embedded in Chinese intelligence and foreign influence operations, according to Schweizer, but he also was the chief financial officer at the Beijing-based Radiance Property Holdings — which was tied to the Chinese government’s “united front” foreign influence operations.
The firm — now called Radiance Holdings — is controlled and run by Lam Ting Keung, a businessman with deep connections to “united front” groups linked to Chinese intelligence. Lam was also a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a high-ranking Communist Party advisory body that is also a central component of the Chinese government’s united front efforts.
Schweizer writes: “According to a U.S. federal government commission, united front organizations often serve as covers for Chinese intelligence operations.”
“The money soon began to flow,” Schweizer writes. Over 2017, CEFC sent Hunter Biden close to $6 million.
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