And the next day, one of Hunter Biden's deliberately convoluted and obscure shell companies received $100,000 from the Chinese energy company.

Before getting to the new email, something I heard about the WhatsApp message in which Hunter Biden threatened his Chinese partner and said that Joe Biden was sitting in the room with him:

This message was written in June, 2017. The date is important. Biden was no longer Vice President -- but Hunter was trying to coerce money out of the Chinese communist official which had been promised when Joe Biden was still Vice President.

Why was the Chinese communist official refusing to pay? Because Biden was no longer Vice President and therefore no longer in a position to deliver favors. He didn't want to honor the previous promise of bribe-money because the official he was bribing no longer had value.

Thus, the need to change strategy. They had previously promised favors for the money; now they were threatening retribution if they didn't get the money they had "earned."

Now, for the new email. Bonchie at RedState:

The eye-catcher in the exchange is the mention of "the Bidens" being the "best I know" at doing whatever the "Chairman wants from this partnership." That sure sounds like it's a family affair and not just Hunter Biden flying solo. Besides, what good was the president's son without his father? There's only one member of the "Bidens" who had anything to offer in these foreign dealings. That would be Joe Biden. Certainly, James Biden (Joe Biden's brother), who is also connected to this, didn't have and doesn't have the influence to satisfy a CCP-connected energy firm.

But for me, the really big red flag here is the continued mention of a "partnership." Again, what exactly did the Biden family have to offer CEFC? That would seem to be the biggest question surrounding all this, though you wouldn't know it based on the lack of interest from the press. What did the Bidens have to give these CCP officials to secure such a large payday, totaling millions of dollars?

As to who the "Chairman" actually is, he's been pinpointed as Ye Jianming, a Chinese billionaire with a long history of working with CCP intelligence.

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Who is "the Chairman?" Ye Jianming is a Chinese billionaire tied to a CCP-intelligence gathering agency.

Ye stated that that CEFC China's vision "is to obtain overseas resources and serve the national strategy."

He wanted to expand China's reach and influence around the world.
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As more facts come to light, it becomes even more evident that the Bidens put China and their interests first and America last.