Disentangling what is currently known about Hunter Biden’s dealings with Chinese entities.
President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden step off Air Force One, February 4, 2023. Credit: Patrick Semansky via AP Photos
As President Biden gears up for a heated re-election campaign, Republicans have seized on the financial entanglements of his son Hunter — some of which relate to companies and individuals in China. No evidence has emerged suggesting the president benefited financially from Hunter’s multimillion-dollar deals.
This week, The Wire disentangles what is currently known about Hunter Biden’s dealings with Chinese entities, including those with a multimillion-dollar investment fund and a defunct Chinese energy conglomerate whose billionaire founder has not been seen in public in more than five years. These details emerged from a now-famous laptop hard drive whose contents first became public in 2020 and have since been used in multiple congressional committee investigations led by Republicans.
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Hunter Biden’s first known partnership with a Chinese entity started in 2013, when an investment and advisory firm he founded, Rosemont Seneca Partners, helped to launc
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