{"id":472877,"date":"2022-07-11T06:13:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T03:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/amid-hunters-ongoing-scandals-biden-is-going-soft-on-china\/"},"modified":"2022-07-11T06:13:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T03:13:57","slug":"amid-hunters-ongoing-scandals-biden-is-going-soft-on-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/amid-hunters-ongoing-scandals-biden-is-going-soft-on-china\/","title":{"rendered":"#Amid Hunter&#8217;s ongoing scandals, Biden is going soft on China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26e09574647\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26e09574647\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/amid-hunters-ongoing-scandals-biden-is-going-soft-on-china\/#%E2%80%9CAmid_Hunters_ongoing_scandals_Biden_is_going_soft_on_China%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Amid Hunter&#8217;s ongoing scandals, Biden is going soft on China&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CAmid_Hunters_ongoing_scandals_Biden_is_going_soft_on_China%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Amid Hunter&#8217;s ongoing scandals, Biden is going soft on China&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Miranda Devine\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>     <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It took a certain bloodless chutzpah for the president to place his scandal-ridden son front and center at a White House function last week.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden, 52, popped up at Thursday\u2019s Medal of Freedom ceremony, to glad-hand and network from his front-row perch even as he awaits indictment by a grand jury in Delaware over his shady foreign business dealings, most lucratively in China.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just one day earlier, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/07\/06\/politics\/fbi-mi5-wray-china\/index.html\">FBI Director Christopher Wray <\/a>and his British MI5 counterpart made a rare joint public <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance in London to sound the alarm over the growing \u201cserious security and economic threat\u201d posed by China, which aims to steal our intellectual property and corrupt our politics.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Wednesday,<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/china-targeting-state-local-leaders-push-influence-beijing-friendly-policies-intel-officials\"> US counterintelligence officials issued a bulletin <\/a>to state and local officials, warning of an escalating campaign by China to manipulate and influence politicians to push Washington for China-friendly policies.<\/p>\n<p>The threat is not exactly new. The Trump administration pursued aggressive measures to rein in China\u2019s growing assertiveness and espionage activities.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, Joe Biden has gone soft on China since becoming president.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22185653413800.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"President Joe Biden walks with first lady Jill Biden along with his son Hunter Biden and his wife Melissa Cohen Biden with son Beau Biden as they arrive at Ft. McNair aboard Marine One after spending the weekend at Camp David, Monday, July 4, 2022, in Washington. \" class=\"wp-image-22998070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22185653413800.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22185653413800.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22185653413800.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22185653413800.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Joe Biden has continued to stand by his son amid his ongoing scandals while maintaining he was unaware of Hunter\u2019s dealings.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/Evan Vucci<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here are a few examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He diverted at least a million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/oil-us-reserves-head-overseas-gasoline-prices-stay-high-2022-07-05\/\">according to Reuters<\/a>, to Chinese state-owned gas giant Sinopec, which Hunter had invested in through his ten percent stake in Chinese private equity firm BHR.<\/li>\n<li>He disbanded the China Initiative, a national security program set up by the Trump administration to combat China\u2019s economic espionage at universities and research institutions.<\/li>\n<li>He revoked Trump-era restrictions against TikTok, instead promising a \u201cnational security review\u201d which has led to no action for over a year. The world\u2019s fastest-growing <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> platform, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, reportedly has repeatedly accessed US users\u2019 private personal data.<\/li>\n<li>In another unwinding of hardline Trump policies, the Biden administration granted the Chinese tech giant\u2019s Huawei a license to purchase chips used in automobile manufacturing, Reuters reported last year.<\/li>\n<li>He has not pressed China on the origins of COVID-19.<\/li>\n<li>He suspended tariffs on Chinese solar panels.<\/li>\n<li>He reportedly is contemplating lifting further Trump tariffs against Chinese imports, for no discernible benefit to America, with economists warning that any effect on soaring inflation would be minimal and short-lived.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22076072296629.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"President Joe Biden meets virtually with Chinese President Xi Jinping from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, on Nov. 15, 2021. \" class=\"wp-image-22998079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22076072296629.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22076072296629.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22076072296629.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22076072296629.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Biden is reportedly considering lifting Trump-era tariffs against Chinese imports.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/Susan Walsh<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is astonishing that such generous concessions are even being contemplated while China has become Vladimir Putin\u2019s top financier in the war on Ukraine, by buying discounted Russian oil and thus allowing the Kremlin to withstand Western sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>This munificence to China adds to well-founded concerns that Joe Biden is compromised by the Chinese Communist Party, given all the evidence on Hunter\u2019s laptop about millions of dollars that flowed from China to his son and brother, Jim Biden.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, Biden deserves praise for his involvement in both AUKUS, the trilateral security pact forged last year between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the US, and the QUAD alliance with Japan, India and Australia, the brainchild of recently assassinated former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe to counter China\u2019s influence in the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>But until he comes clean about his role in his family\u2019s influence-peddling operation in China during his vice presidency there will always be suspicions about his motives and questions about the risk to national security.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22159581944753.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Ranking member Rep. James Comer Jr., R-Ky., speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 8, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-22998094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22159581944753.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22159581944753.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22159581944753.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22159581944753.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Rep. James Comer accused the Biden administration of shielding documents on \u201cHunter Biden and potentially President Biden.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/Andrew Harnik<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Instead, his administration is stymying congressional attempts to investigate the corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury Department has begun to refuse requests for Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) connected with Hunter and Jim Biden and associates, which banks are required to file if they have concerns about a foreign transaction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Over 150 of these SARs were crucial to establish the money trail into Biden bank accounts from China, Ukraine and Russia in the investigations so far by Republican Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter last week to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Rep. James Comer, the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, accused Treasury of running \u201ccover\u201d for Hunter with a new rule requiring Democrat sign-off for financial documents.<\/p>\n<p>The sensitivity of these documents can be seen in two hitherto unpublished Suspicious Activity Reports exclusively obtained by The Post from nonprofit research outfit Marco Polo \u2014 one of which refers to Joe Biden by name.<\/p>\n<p>The first, filed by JP Morgan Chase, reports 93 concerning wire transactions between Feb. 3, 2014, and Aug. 2, 2019, involving Hunter, his business partners, Devon Archer, Eric Schwerin, Hunter\u2019s firms Owasco and Rosemont Seneca Advisors, the corrupt energy company Burisma \u2014 which paid him $1 million a year while his father was VP \u2014 and Bohai Harvest RST, the Chinese private equity firm in which Hunter held a ten percent stake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SAR is being filed to report wire activity involving parties linked to a Politically Exposed Person (\u2018PEP\u2019) with negative media for possible political corruption; as well as alleged business conflicts involving related companies and individuals,\u201d the bank states in its report.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22188659262516.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Hunter Biden arrives in the East Room before President Joe Biden speaks awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 17 people at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7, 2022. \" class=\"wp-image-22998097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22188659262516.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22188659262516.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22188659262516.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AP22188659262516.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>JP Morgan Chase reported 93 concerning wire transactions involving Hunter between 2014 and 2019.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/J. Scott Applewhite<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cResearch revealed [Hunter] is an American lawyer and PEP, as he is the second son of former Vice President Joe Biden [and] worked for a US-based company which received monthly transfers exceeding $166,000 per month from BURISMA while the vice president was leading US policy with the Ukrainian government . . .\u00a0BOHAI HARVEST allegedly operates and works with a number of funds and the structure brought [Hunter] in close proximity to influential Chinese government and business figures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the transactions highlighted in the report are 16 wires totaling $119,095.31 from an account at the Bank of China and four wires from Burisma totaling $222,566.97.<\/p>\n<p>There is also an amount of $84,400.16 that Hunter sent in 10 wires to \u201cvarious counterparties\u201d at a Wells Fargo account between Aug. 14, 2017, and Oct. 2, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The second SAR relating to Hunter from JP Morgan Chase refers to \u201chuman trafficking\u201d suspicions and again described the president\u2019s son as a \u201cPolitically Exposed Person.\u201d This report originated from an \u201cexternal referral for transactions\u201d in which Hunter or his private firm Owasco sent money to recipients with ties to the \u201cadult entertainment industry and potential association with prostitution [or who] were listed in prior SAR filings related to human trafficking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The amount was for $149,843 between Oct. 24, 2016, and May 10, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s repeated claims that he knew nothing about Hunter\u2019s foreign business dealings are not credible in light of mounting evidence to the contrary, including a voicemail found on Hunter\u2019s abandoned laptop in which he expresses relief that a New York Times article about one of Hunter and Jim\u2019s Chinese deals had barely skimmed the surface.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you\u2019re clear,\u201d Joe tells Hunter.<\/p>\n<p>When Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> reporter Peter Doocy asked last week about why there was \u201ca voicemail of the president talking to his son about his overseas business dealings if the president has said he\u2019s never spoken to his son about his overseas business?\u201d White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not going to talk about alleged materials from the laptop,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The White House cannot keep ignoring the Hunter problem engulfing Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not going away.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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