November 21, 2021
Hunter Biden, China, electric batteries, and child slavery
By Andrea Widburg
Not to mince words, Hunter Biden is a disgusting human being. It’s not just the drugs, the strippers, the abandoned children, the prostitutes, the sleazy self-pornographic videos, or his latest art scam. It’s also that he has no compunction about doing business with some of the world’s worst actors or with people hostile to America. The latest example is the news that, back in 2016, Hunter Biden’s investment firm—and keep in mind that he’s always been his daddy’s bag man—helped broker a deal that sold a valuable African cobalt mine to a state-backed Chinese company. Cobalt, of course, is essential for the batteries running the electric cars the Biden administration is trying to force Americans to buy.
The New York Post summarizes the story:
The deal, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon during the 2020 presidential campaign, was spotlighted by the New York Times Saturday as Congress inches closer to approving President Biden’s $2 trillion social spending plan, which earmarks billions of dollars to promote electric vehicles.
In 2016, an investment firm founded by Hunter Biden with several Chinese partners was cut into a complex $3.8 billion transaction that transferred 80 percent of Congo’s Tenke Fungurum mine from an American company to Beijing-backed China Molybdenum.
President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden’s father, was the sitting vice president when the deal was struck.
The mine is one of the world’s largest sources of cobalt — and China’s control of the mineral “presents a critical vulnerability to the future of the U.S. domestic auto industry,” Biden’s White House reported in June.
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