{"id":32826,"date":"2020-10-22T08:59:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T12:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=32826"},"modified":"2020-10-22T15:14:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T19:14:02","slug":"because-hunter-biden-is-in-huge-trouble-so-is-father-joe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=32826","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden is in HUGE trouble, so is father Joe!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Hunter Biden Business Assoc Flips \u2013 New Emails show Securing China White House Operation<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure class=\"entry-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"New Hunter emails china feat 10 17 20\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelibertybeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/New-Hunter-emails-china-feat-10-17-20.jpg?fit=620%2C280&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"page-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Hunter Biden Business Associate Flips From Prison, Releases Emails Detailing China Influence-Peddling Operation<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Via ZeroHedge &amp; Breitbart<\/h4>\n<p>Emails from a former business associate of Hunter Biden\u2019s inner-circle who\u2019s serving time in prison for a 2016 investment scheme reveal that Hunter and his colleagues\u00a0<strong>used their access to the Obama administration to peddle influence to potential Chinese clients and investors<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 including\u00a0<strong>securing a private, off-the-books meeting with the former Vice President<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/golf%20pals_0_1.jpg?resize=599%2C383&amp;ssl=1\" width=\"599\" height=\"383\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img\" role=\"group\"><figcaption><em>*Devon Archer (left) with Joe and Hunter Biden<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The emails, given to investigative journalist Peter Schweizer by former Biden associate Bevan Cooney and published by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/10\/16\/exclusive-this-is-china-inc-emails-reveal-hunter-bidens-associates-helped-communist-aligned-chinese-elites-secure-white-house-meetings\/\"><em>Breitbart<\/em><\/a>\u00a0also reveal that in 2011, the younger Biden and his business associates discussed strengthening relations with \u201cChina Inc.\u201d as part of\u00a0<strong>a \u201cnew push on soft diplomacy for the Chinese.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As\u00a0<em>Breitbart<\/em>\u00a0notes,\u00a0<strong>these emails are completely unconnected to the Hunter Biden emails released by the\u00a0<em>New York Post<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cooney believes he was the \u201cfall guy\u201d for an investment scheme in which Hunter and business associate<strong> *Devon Archer<\/strong> avoided responsibility. He reached out to Schweizer after the journalist published\u00a0<em>Secret Empires<\/em>\u00a0in 2018. Archer was initially spared jail and handed a second trial, however a federal appeals court\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/hunter-biden-longtime-biz-partner-and-burisma-board-buddy-going-prison-after-obama-judge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reinstated<\/a>\u00a0Archer\u2019s fraud conviction<\/strong>\u00a0in the case last week.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cooney provided Schweizer with written authorization, his email account name, and password to his Gmail account to retrieve these emails.\u00a0<strong>He authorized, in writing, the publication of these emails\u2014 notable because it is the first time a close associate has publicly confirmed Hunter\u2019s trading on his father\u2019s influence<\/strong>. \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/10\/16\/exclusive-this-is-china-inc-emails-reveal-hunter-bidens-associates-helped-communist-aligned-chinese-elites-secure-white-house-meetings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Breitbart<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More revelations:<\/p>\n<p>In a November 5, 2011 email, one of Archer\u2019s business contacts suggested helping to arrange White House meetings\u00a0<strong>for a group of Chinese executives and government officials<\/strong>\u00a0who would make \u201cpotentially outstanding new clients.\u201d The group, the China Entrepreneur Club (CEC) included CCP loyalists, Chinese billionaires and at least one \u201crespected diplomat\u201d from Beijing. According to the report, CEC \u2013 established in 2006, has been referred to as \u201ca\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/world\/eonomic-and-political-plans-will-be-at-play-during-trudeau-ma-meeting\/article31703382\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second foreign ministry<\/a>\u201d for China\u2019s communist regime. The gross income of CEC members is estimated to be equivalent to roughly 4% of China\u2019s GDP, according to the email.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know it is political season and people are hesitant but a group like this does not come along every day,\u201d said intermediary Mohamed A. Khashoggi on behalf of the CEC to a Biden \/ Archer associate. \u201c<strong>A tour of the white house and a meeting with a member of the chief of staff\u2019s office and John Kerry would be great,<\/strong>\u201d reads the email.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Read Doc from SCRIBD:\u00a0 <a title=\"View Re China Entrepreneurs Club a.pdf on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/480341820\/Re-China-Entrepreneurs-Club-a-pdf#from_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Re China Entrepreneurs Club\u2026<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Breitbart News<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The outreach to Hunter Biden\u2019s group came\u00a0<strong>after several failed attempts to secure meetings with top Obama-Biden administration officials<\/strong>\u00a0with no success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the DC side as you will see below they [CEC] have written letters to several members of the administration and others and have so far not had a strong reaction,\u201d reads an email.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>This is China Inc,<\/strong>\u201d wrote Khashoggi \u2013 referring to Chinese billionaires. \u201cBiggest priority for the CEC group is to see the White House, and have a senior US politician, or senior member of Obama\u2019s administration, give them a tour\u2026 If your friend in DC can help, we would be extremely grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And according to\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/10\/16\/exclusive-this-is-china-inc-emails-reveal-hunter-bidens-associates-helped-communist-aligned-chinese-elites-secure-white-house-meetings\/\">Breitbart<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<strong>Hunter and Devon Archer apparently delivered for the communists<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The original Oct. 19, 2011, email from Khashoggi was sent to Gary Fears \u2014 a controversial political fundraiser with a checkered history who was caught up in a riverboat casino scandal in the mid-1990s \u2014 who forwarded it on to Archer a couple weeks later on Nov. 5, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Time was short, as Khashoggi\u2019s original email noted that the Chinese delegation would be in DC on Nov. 14, 2011. F<strong>ears told Archer to \u201creach out\u201d to Khashoggi about the request regarding getting the Chinese businesspersons and officials into the Obama White House, adding it would be \u201cperfect for\u201d Archer to also \u201cattend\u201d with them and then \u201cget guys for the potash deal.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The same day Fears sent Khashoggi\u2019s message to him,\u00a0<strong>Archer took the email from Fears and sent to Khashoggi a business proposal for a potash mine deal he had lined up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Six days after the initial overture, Archer received a followup email asking how a meeting with CEC\u2019s representative went<\/strong><\/u>. The email closed with \u201c<strong>Do me a favor and ask Hunter [Biden] to call me \u2014 I\u2019ve tried reaching him a couple of times.<\/strong>\u201d Archer responded, \u201cHunter is traveling in the UAE for the week with royalty so probably next week before he will be back in pocket\u2026. 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\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/2011_11_11-Hunter-in-UAE.jpg?w=678&amp;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img\" role=\"group\"><figcaption><em>Screenshot via Breitbart<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cCouldn\u2019t confirm this with Hunter on the line but we got him his meeting at the WH Monday for the Chinese folks,\u201d\u00a0<strong>reads a reply from Archer, one minute later<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/archer%202.jpg?w=678&amp;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And on the day of the meeting, November 14, 2011,\u00a0<strong>Cooney emailed Fears to confirm that Archer \u201cgot the Chinese guys all taken care of in DC.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, White House visitor logs reveal that the Chinese delegation of around 30 members\u00a0<em>did<\/em>\u00a0visit the White House on November 14, 2011<\/strong>. The logs, however, conceal that the delegation met with\u00a0<strong>former VP Joe Biden himself<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, the Obama-Biden visitor logs do not mention any meeting with Vice President Joe Biden. But\u00a0<strong>the Vice President\u2019s off-the-books meeting was revealed by one of the core founders of the CEC<\/strong>. In\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confindustria.pu.it\/allegati\/notizie\/n20150590_01b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an obscure document<\/a>\u00a0listing the CEC members\u2019 biographies,\u00a0<strong>CEC Secretary General Maggie Cheng alleges that she facilitated the CEC delegation meetings in Washington in 2011 and boasts of the Washington establishment figures that CEC met with<\/strong>. The first name she dropped was that of Vice President Joe Biden. \u2013<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/10\/16\/exclusive-this-is-china-inc-emails-reveal-hunter-bidens-associates-helped-communist-aligned-chinese-elites-secure-white-house-meetings\/\">Breitbart<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Schweizer suggests that\u00a0<strong>the meeting may have opened the door for Hunter and Devon Archer down the road<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 as just two years later they formed the Chinese government-funded Bohai Harvest RST (BHR) investment fund which saw Chinese money\u00a0<strong>pour into it<\/strong>\u00a0for investments in CEC-linked businesses. According to the report, \u201d One of BHR\u2019s first\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bhrpe.com\/show.php?catid=39&amp;id=86\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer\">major portfolio investments<\/a>\u00a0was a ride-sharing company like Uber called Didi Dache\u2014now called Didi Chuxing Technology Co. That company is closely connected to\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.daonong.com\/English\/information\/2013\/0813\/41148.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer\">Liu Chuanzhi<\/a>, the chairman of the\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/docplayer.net\/61006471-Liu-chuanzhi-liu-chuan-zhi--chairman-china-entrepreneur-club-cec-chairman-of-the-board-legend-holdings-limited.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">China Entrepreneur Club<\/a>\u00a0(CEC) and the founder of Legend Holdings\u2014the parent company of Lenovo, one of the world\u2019s 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. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report adds: \u201cLiu has long been\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.legendholdings.com.cn\/common_en\/index.aspx?nodeid=1122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">involved in CCP politics<\/a>, including serving as a representative to the 9th, 10th, and 11th\u00a0sessions of the National People\u2019s Congress of the PRC 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\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/jamestown.org\/program\/understanding-the-role-of-chambers-of-commerce-and-industry-associations-in-united-front-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">affiliated with the Chinese United Front<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s Don Jr. been up to again?<\/p>\n<h3>*********<\/h3>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelibertybeacon.com\/hunter-biden-business-assoc-flips-new-emails-show-securing-china-white-house-operation\/\">https:\/\/www.thelibertybeacon.com\/hunter-biden-business-assoc-flips-new-emails-show-securing-china-white-house-operation\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter Biden Business Assoc Flips \u2013 New Emails show Securing China White House Operation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}