Biden associate releases emails detailing China influence-peddling operation!

NEW YORK (PNN) - October 17, 2020 - E-mails from a former business associate of Hunter Biden’s inner-circle who’s serving time in prison for a 2016 investment scheme reveal that Biden and his colleagues used their access to the illegitimate Obama regime to peddle influence to potential Chinese clients and investors - including securing a private, off-the-books meeting with former Vice President Joe Biden.

In the emails, given to investigative journalist Peter Schweizer by former Biden associate Bevan Cooney and published in 2011, the younger Biden and his business associates discussed strengthening relations with “China Inc.” as part of a “new push on soft diplomacy for the Chinese.”

Cooney believes he was the “fall guy” for an investment scheme in which Hunter and business associate Devon Archer avoided responsibility. He reached out to Schweizer after the journalist published Secret Empires in 2018. Archer was initially spared jail and handed a second trial, however a federal appeals court reinstated Archer’s fraud conviction in the case last week.

Cooney provided Schweizer with written authorization, his email account name, and password to his gmail account to retrieve these emails. He authorized, in writing, the publication of these e-mails - notable because it is the first time a close associate has publicly confirmed Hunter’s trading on his father’s influence.

In a November 5, 2011 e-mail, one of Archer’s business contacts suggested helping to arrange White House meetings for a group of Chinese executives and government officials who would make “potentially outstanding new clients”. The group, the China Entrepreneur Club (CEC) included Chinese Communist Party loyalists, Chinese billionaires, and at least one “respected diplomat” from Beijing. According to the report, CEC - established in 2006 - has been referred to as “a second foreign ministry” for China’s Communist regime. The gross income of CEC members is estimated to be equivalent to roughly 4% of China's GDP, according to the email.

“I know it is political season and people are hesitant but a group like this does not come along every day,” said intermediary Mohamed A. Khashoggi on behalf of the CEC to a Biden/Archer associate. “A tour of the White House and a meeting with a member of the Chief of Staff’s office and John Kerry would be great,” reads the e-mail.

The outreach to Hunter Biden's group came after several failed attempts to secure meetings with top Obama-Biden regime officials with no success.

“From the DC side they [CEC] have written letters to several members of the (regime) and others and have so far not had a strong reaction,” reads an e-mail.

“This is China Inc,” wrote Khashoggi - referring to Chinese billionaires. “Biggest priority for the CEC group is to see the White House and have a senior Fascist Police States of Amerika politician or senior member of Obama’s (regime) give them a tour. If your friend in DC can help, we would be extremely grateful.”

The original October 19, 2011, e-mail from Khashoggi was sent to Gary Fears - a controversial political fundraiser with a checkered history who was caught up in a riverboat casino scandal in the mid-1990s - who forwarded it on to Archer a couple weeks later on November 5, 2011.

Time was short, as Khashoggi’s original e-mail noted that the Chinese delegation would be in DC on Nov. 14, 2011. Fears told Archer to “reach out” to Khashoggi about the request regarding getting the Chinese businessmen and women and officials into the Obama White House, adding it would be “perfect for” Archer to also “attend” with them and then “get guys for the potash deal.”

The same day Fears sent Khashoggi’s message to him; Archer took the e-mail from Fears and sent to Khashoggi a business proposal for a potash mine deal he had arranged.

Six days after the initial overture, Archer received a follow-up e-mail asking how a meeting with CEC’s representative went. The e-mail closed with “Do me a favor and ask Hunter [Biden] to call me - I’ve tried reaching him a couple of times.” Archer responded, “Hunter is traveling in the UAE for the week with royalty so probably next week before he will be back in pocket. The meeting with [CEC representative] was good. Seems like there is a lot to do together down the line. Probably not a fit for the current Potash private placement but he’s a good strategic relationship as the mine develops. Definitely have a drink with Mohammed and let him know how impressed I was with his whole deal.”

“Couldn’t confirm this with Hunter on the line but we got him his meeting at the WH Monday for the Chinese folks,” reads a reply from Archer, one minute later.

On the day of the meeting, November 14, 2011, Cooney emailed Fears to confirm that Archer “got the Chinese guys all taken care of in DC.”

Meanwhile, White House visitor logs reveal that the Chinese delegation of around 30 members did visit the White House on November 14, 2011. The logs, however, conceal that the delegation met with former VP Joe Biden himself.

Curiously, the Obama-Biden visitor logs do not mention any meeting with Vice President Joe Biden. But the vice president’s off the books meeting was revealed by one of the core founders of the CEC. In a document listing the CEC members’ biographies, CEC Secretary General Maggie Cheng alleges that she facilitated the CEC delegation meetings in Washington in 2011, and boasts of the Washington establishment figures with whom the CEC met. The first name she dropped was that of Vice President Joe Biden.

Schweizer suggests that the meeting may have opened the door for Hunter and Devon Archer down the road - as just two years later they formed the Chinese government-funded Bohai Harvest RST (BHR) investment fund, which saw Chinese money pour into it for investments in CEC-linked businesses. According to the report, “One of BHR’s first major portfolio investments was a ride-sharing company like Uber called Didi Dache - now called Didi Chuxing Technology Co. That company is closely connected to Liu Chuanzhi, chairman of the China Entrepreneur Club (CEC) and the founder of Legend Holdings - the parent company of Lenovo, one of the world’s largest computer companies. Liu is a former Chinese Communist Party delegate and was a leader of the 2011 CEC delegation to the White House. His daughter was the president of Didi.”

The report adds, “Liu has long been involved in CCP politics, including serving as a representative to the 9th, 10th and 11th sessions of the National People’s Congress of the Peoples Republic of China, and as a representative to the 16th and 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. Liu was the Vice Chairman of the 8th and 9th Executive Committee of All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC), an organization known to be affiliated with the Chinese United Front.”

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