Hunter Biden reveals top CCP leader wanted him to visit China to 'discuss business opportunities': emails

First on Fox: Hunter Biden told his business associates in late 2013 that a top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader had asked him to travel to China to talk about future “business opportunities,” according to an email obtained and verified by Fox News Digital.

In December 2013, Biden accompanied his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, on a six-day tour around Asia that included China, South Korea, and Japan. While in Beijing, Biden introduced his father to one of his Chinese business associates, who was with another associate, in the lobby of the hotel they were staying at.

During his visit to China, Biden attended a series of events with his father, including a lunch that included some of China's most powerful CCP leaders. On December 5, Jonathan Lee, a business associate to whom Vice President Biden was introduced, emailed Biden to ask how his trip to China was going, prompting Biden to email back later that day that “everything went very well.”

“Do you know the former governor of Hong Kong—CH Trong (SP?),” Hunter asked. “He wants me to come to HK to discuss business opportunities. He sat next to Dad at the premiere lunch and said we knew each other – but I don't remember him.”

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“Very well, I can go with you to see what he can do for us,” Lee told Hunter.

“Trung” refers to CH Tung, the former Hong Kong governor and billionaire who served as vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) from 2005 to 2023, a former business associate of Biden confirmed to Fox News Digital. According to the CPPCC website, the CPPCC is the “core mechanism of multi-party cooperation and political consultation” led by the CCP.

In December 2013, Hunter Biden asked his business associates if they knew CH Tung or Tung Chi-hwa, a former Hong Kong governor and billionaire who served as vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. (Fox News)

Fox News Digital could not confirm whether Biden took up Tung's alleged offer to visit Hong Kong to discuss “business opportunities.”

Biden's email about Tung would not be the last time his name was mentioned in his emails. In July 2014, James Bulger, who goes by “Jimmy” and served as chairman of Boston-based Thornton Group LLC – a firm that Hunter launched in a joint venture with the now-defunct Rosemont Seneca with Chinese investment firm Bohai. join forces to do Capital to build BHR partners—emailed Biden about introducing Tung to their Chinese business partners.

In July 2014, Hunter Biden said he would be “glad” to help BHR CEO Jonathan Lee and BHR committee person Andy Lu introduce “Mr. Tung,” referring to Tung Chi-hwa, vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. At this time the conference. (Fox News)

In a July 2014 email, Bulger asked Biden to discuss “BHR investment goals” and “fundraising” with Lee and Andy Lu, a BHR committee member, with “Mr. Tung,” alleging that Biden sat next to Tung at a 2013 event. . Dinner welcoming Vice President Biden to Beijing, according to previous Fox News Digital reporting.

“It is my understanding that during the trip to Beijing with your father, President Xi hosted a welcome dinner,” Bulger wrote. “(A) At that dinner, you were sitting right next to Mr. Tung, so Jay and Andy believe it would be very helpful if you could send Mr. Tung a brief email saying that you are a partner and board member of BHR. And that you are to Mr. Tung. Would be grateful if he could discuss funding with your local partners.”

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Corporate media organizations have spent years dismissing negative information about Hunter Biden and his father, President Biden. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for World Food Program USA)

“Please let me know if you could introduce these two to Mr. Tung via email as this is very important to our BHR Initiative (sic) at this time,” Bulger insisted.

Biden responded that he was “happy” to grant the request but said he could not recall the names of the gentlemen who sat next to him.

“Glad to do it,” he wrote, “but I don't have Mr. Tung's email address and he may have been sitting next to me but I don't remember the names of the two gentlemen to my left and right. Anyway, I'll be back as soon as possible.” Advise the team to draft an email in Mandarin and English for my approval.”

“Let me contact Lynn and Jay will be back soon,” Bulger replied later that day.

Multiple inquiries from Fox News Digital to Biden's lawyers, Bulger, Lee, Lu and Tung, about whether Biden had previously introduced Tung to his aides were not returned.

In addition to the 2013 dinner in Beijing, Tung has been on the guest list of “expected attendees” at at least two state dinners at the White House during the Obama-Biden administration. A biography of Tung on the Obama administration archive website for the January 2011 dinner states that he is “Vice Chairman, CPPCC, former Hong Kong Chief Executive.”

In another press release for the September 2015 state dinner, Tung's biography listed him as “Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.”

Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, shakes hands with then-Vice President Joe Biden inside the Great Hall of the People on Dec. 4, 2013 in Beijing. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

According to a 2018 report by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a US government agency, the CPPC is a “central part of China's United Front System”, which “works to co-opt and neutralize potential sources of opposition” to the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Policy and Authority.”

According to a 2021 report by The Diplomat, the CPPCC is “designed to reach out to non-Communist Party members – and will ultimately see them work with the CCP to advance their interests.” While serving as vice chairman of the CPPCC, Tung established the China-US Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) in 2008.

Tung has many powerful contacts in Washington, DC, including John Podesta, President Biden's top climate diplomat. Fox News Digital previously reported that Podesta referred to Tung as his “friend” and took several phone calls from him between 2015 and 2016 while serving as chairman of Hillary Clinton's failed campaign.

In May 2013, Tung and Podesta spoke at a luncheon hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, attended by Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiancai.

“However, for the past four years, the Center for American Progress and the China-US Exchange Foundation have co-hosted a US.-China Track II dialogue, and we continue to host these dialogues on an annual basis,” Podesta said. “I have the utmost respect for CH Tung's tireless efforts to bring our two countries closer together. He is always looking forward to foreseeing emerging challenges in US-China relations and determining what he can do to make those challenges more manageable.”

John Podesta, founder and director of the Center for American Progress, speaks at the Center for American Progress CAP 2019 Ideas Conference on May 22, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/Lightrocket via Getty Images)

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Fox News Digital previously reported on Tung's role in CUSEF's targeting of historically black colleges and universities in 2009, visiting a black public relations consultant's office across the street from the White House to learn more about black Americans.

“In 2009, the former chief executive of Hong Kong came to my office with staff from the China-US Exchange Foundation and they wanted to know how we got a black president,” Julia Wilson told the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Students during a 2017 presentation. “They were saying, 'We don't know anything about black people. So can you write us a white paper and share with us. How did black people get enough power to vote a black man into office?' So they really need a brief description of our history Who are we African Americans?

Tung's firm will pay more than $1M to Wilson's firm Wilson Global Communications between 2017 and December 2023.

Biden's attorney, Lee and the White House did not respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment.