by Jerry Dunleavy at Washington Examiner
Hunter Biden is coming under fresh scrutiny over his Chinese investment firm’s teaming up with a Beijing military company to make a controversial business deal in 2015.
The BHR Partners investment firm, which counted President Joe Biden’s son as a board member and 10% stakeholder, worked with AVIC Automotive — a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China, or AVIC — to purchase Michigan-based Henniges Automotive in September 2015.
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AVIC is a Chinese military company considered to be perhaps the largest defense company in the world. It was known to support the People’s Liberation Army at the time that BHR did business with it, and it publicly touted its role in building jets for China’s air force. Multiple AVIC subsidiaries had been sanctioned by the United States prior to Hunter Biden teaming up with it.
A key AVIC subsidiary known as the China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corporation, or CATIC, has also been considered a U.S. national security threat since 1990.
“The government has long been aware of the national security concerns posed by AVIC and its subsidiaries. We’ve known since at least the early ‘90s that this organization is controlled by the Chinese communist regime and is not friendly to America’s security interests,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) told the Washington Examiner. “This transaction should have triggered serious alarm bells at the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. And any upstanding American businessperson who does any due diligence would know that partnering with AVIC is choosing money over country.”
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