Hunter Biden allegedly helped increase Chinese influence in America, according to a scathing new report by Miranda Devine, a New York Post writer. In her new book, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the D Secrets the President Tried to Hide, Devine discusses Hunter Biden’s financial connections with Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), a Chinese-linked energy company.
She alleges that the Biden family offered their services to CEFC to further promote its company throughout the world based on hundreds of emails and WhatsApp messages found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, which he left at a computer repair shop in Delaware in April 2019. In return for their help, Hunter reportedly received $10 million for three years and a diamond worth at least $80,000.
Ye Jianming, the head of CEFC, was asked to increase the Chinese energy consortium’s influence worldwide, and James Gillar, a former Special Air Service officer, suggested he get in touch with the Biden family. Ye was introduced to Hunter Biden by Gillar through Rob Walker, a former Clinton staffer whose wife was Jill Biden’s aide during her time as the second lady.
In December 2015, Ye and CEFC Executive Director Jianjun Zang went to Washington, DC, when a meeting was scheduled in Hunter Biden’s diary. A short time after the apparent meeting, Gillar reportedly told Tony Bobulinski, a naval officer turned affluent institutional investor, that he needed help restructuring a Chinese joint venture for “one of the most prominent families in the United States.”
Gillar eventually admits it’s for the Biden family, adding that Joe, who announced he wouldn’t run for president in 2016, would be participating actively after he left office. He went on to say that the Bidens expect the company to collect billions of dollars in contracts. In March 2016, Gillar told Bobulinksi that the Chinese partner is CEFC, which he said had “more money than God.”
In February 2017, after Biden’s term as vice president, Hunter traveled to Miami with Gillar and Rob Walker to meet with Ye, who was in town for the Miami International Boat Show. They booked an exclusive hotel and planned a lunch with Ye. However, Hunter flew back home the day before the scheduled lunch, having already met with Ye for a private dinner, in which the CEFC chairman offered him $10 million a year for three years and a 3.16-carat diamond worth $80,000. Pictures of the diamond were found on Hunter’s laptop with documents listing its weight, color, clarity, cut, and proportions.
Hunter then told Adam Entous of the New Yorker that he went to Miami to see Ye in the hopes of securing a gift to World Food Program USA, stating that the philanthropic endeavor “turned to business opportunities” by happenstance. He also claimed to be surprised when Ye gifted him the diamond. However, nine days later, Walker’s firm, Robinson Walker LLC, received $3 million from State Energy HK Limited, a Shanghai-based corporation linked to CEFC. Another $3 million was sent into his firm on March 1. Both transactions were identified in a “suspicious activity report” by the Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement network.
In November 2017, the man Ye hired to manage his NGO, Patrick Ho Chi-ping, was arrested by FBI agents. According to CNN, Chi-ping was accused of soliciting $3 million in bribes to the president of Chad and Sam Kutesa, Uganda’s foreign minister and then-president of the United Nations General Assembly.
