Ever since Hunter Biden’s laptop became an issue of public interest in late 2020, and despite the best efforts of the media-Democratic complex to suppress that discussion, what might have been going on between "the big guy" and Beijing has troubled American counterspies. Simply put, is President Joe Biden compromised by Communist China ?
BIDEN MANAGES TENSE RELATIONS WITH CHINA AS COVID-19 ISSUES REEMERGEWhat we already know of this story is the stuff of counterintelligence nightmares . It centers on the shadowy firm CEFC China Energy, which appeared flush with cash, as if from nowhere, a decade ago. CEFC then became a big player in global energy markets before disappearing just as mysteriously five years later. As I previously explained :
CEFC’s efforts to enter a relationship with Biden Inc. date to late 2015, when Joe Biden was still vice president. Moreover, CEFC employed multiple shell companies to mask high-dollar payments to Biden Inc. Hunter Biden forged relationships with CEFC’s boss Ye Jianming as well as Gongwen "Kevin" Dong, who was CEFC’s "emissary" to the United States. Hunter Biden likewise got chummy with another CEFC bigwig, Chi Ping "Patrick" Ho (Ho was the friend memorably referred to by Hunter Biden as "the f***ing spy boss of China").
In other words, Hunter Biden knew exactly what sort of people his friends from Beijing were. During the critical 2017-18 time frame, it was hardly a secret that CEFC was closely allied with the Chinese Communist Party, its military, and its intelligence services. Even CNN in 2018 admitted that CEFC leadership, above all Ye Jianming, appeared to be unusually close with Chinese intelligence. Before that, CEFC was run out of the Czech Republic thanks to its shady business acquisitions, plus its efforts to buy off Czech politicians and influencers were so blatant that they got the attention of Prague’s counterintelligence service. CEFC’s activities in the Czech Republic represented a classic case of weaponizing a front company to lavish funds in the service of Beijing’s interests.
By the time Biden Inc. decided to take millions of dollars from CEFC for unspecified services, it was known to Western counterintelligence to be a front for Chinese espionage. Moreover, Patrick Ho was identified by the FBI as a Chinese spy right when Hunter Biden was becoming his friend and partner. CEFC started to come crashing down in late 2018 when Ho was convicted on multiple counts of bribery and money laundering, which the Justice Department only learned about because they were already spying on Ho per the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. They were spying on Ho because they knew CEFC was a Chinese spy front.
Now we are getting more of this shady story and it’s much worse.
Just the News has obtained the testimony of IRS supervisory agent Gary A. Shipley Jr. to the House Ways and Means Committee in late May. This is a shocking chronicle by any standards. Shipley’s account claims that Hunter Biden dodged serious charges in the CEFC matter. The first son’s sweetheart deal from the Justice Department that was announced this week, wherein Hunter Biden dodges jail time, in particular did not involve the Foreign Agents Registration Act , even though Biden taking almost $5 million from CEFC in 2017-18 with his uncle, James Biden, for nebulous services to Beijing, looks like a textbook FARA violation. While multiple Trump associates were prosecuted for FARA violations, the president’s son got an obvious pass.
Shipley’s testimony asserts that the DOJ displayed no interest in discovering if "the big guy," not merely his brother and son, was mixed up with CEFC. Worse, Shipley claims that Biden family associate Rob Walker told the FBI that our current president met with CEFC too (without stating exactly when). Shipley states:
And yet it was clearly valuable for the investigators to ask about Hunter Biden's dad, as Walker went on to describe an instance in which the former Vice President showed up at a CEFC meeting.
Walker said: "We were at the Four Seasons and we were having lunch and he stopped in, just said hello to everybody. I don't even think he drank water. I think Hunter Biden said, 'I may be trying to start a company or try to do something with these guys and could you?' And I think he was like, if I'm around and he'd show up."
The FBI agent asked: "So you definitely got the feeling that that was orchestrated by Hunter Biden to have like an appearance by his dad at that meeting just to kind of bolster your chances at making a deal work out?"
Walker answered: "Sure."
The FBI agent continued: "Any times when he was in office, or did you hear Hunter Biden say that he was setting up a meeting with his dad with them while dad was still in office?"
Walker answered: "Yes."
And, inexplicably, the FBI agent changed the subject.
Joe Biden’s appearance at a CEFC meeting may be perfectly legal, but in counterintelligence terms, since that firm was a Chinese spy front, the former vice president showing up at that meeting would be taken by Beijing as a vote of approval, and not unreasonably. This has counterintelligence implications, given that Biden, Inc. took almost $5 million from CEFC — that is, from Chinese Communist intelligence.
In Beijing’s eyes, Joe Biden endorsed his family’s dealings with CEFC by showing up at that meeting, which means that our current president is considered to be their " agent of influence " (just as Hunter Biden surely is too). This isn’t a spy in conventional understanding, and the term comes from the Russians, who taught Beijing how to spy many decades ago. Joe Biden may even be unaware of his involvement with Chinese espionage. Given the president’s frequent confusion in public, he may not recall that CEFC meeting.
We can be certain that Beijing does, however.
What exactly Chinese intelligence might have on the Bidens is a vastly important question. If Shipley’s account is accurate, this is one of the biggest scandals in American presidential history, given the current alarming tensions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China. Congressional Republicans must demand full and immediate investigation of Shipley’s claims since it appears that Biden’s Justice Department can’t be trusted to follow the law in this unpleasant matter.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM RESTORING AMERICAJohn R. Schindler served with the National Security Agency as a senior intelligence analyst and counterintelligence officer.