Biden campaign co-chair's deep China ties may be liability as security, humanitarian concerns mountHollywood mogul's history with Chinese officials could pose challenge for Biden amid US-China tensions
April 25, 2023
FOX News
Aaron Kleigman
One of the national co-chairs of President Biden's newly announced 2024 re-election campaign has deep and longstanding ties to China's communist government, potentially presenting a problem for the president as analysts continue to warn of the threat that China poses to U.S. national security.
The Biden campaign announced Tuesday that former Disney and DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg will be one of its national co-chairs. Katzenberg, one of the Democrats Party's most prolific fundraisers, and his wife donated over $1.4 million to Biden's 2020 campaign and super PAC, according to Federal Election Commission records. The Hollywood mogul also helped Biden raise millions of additional dollars by hosting fundraisers.
Katzenberg, the Democratic kingmaker who later founded the venture capital firm WndroCo, has an extensive history with China that may prove problematic for Biden as the 2024 campaign wears on. Perhaps most infamously, when Katzenberg was at DreamWorks in 2012, the company announced a multi-billion-dollar deal with the Chinese government to build a production studio in Shanghai.
The deal, which effectively increased the number of U.S. films that could be released in the Chinese market each year, came just days after then-Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping met with then-President Barack Obama in Washington. Xi, now the head of China's ruling Communist Party, traveled after the Obama meeting to Los Angeles, where he met with Katzenberg and both men were featured at a ceremony inking the deal. ...
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