Hunter Biden China deals probed by documentary 'Riding the Dragon'

Investments bolstered companies linked to Chinese military.

Biden, worked for a Shanghai investment firm involved in government- and military-linked deals that bolstered the Chinese military, including the purchase of an American auto parts maker, according to a new documentary film.

Biden, a lawyer and investment banker, until recently was a director at Bohai Harvest RST, known as BHR, formed with $1 billion in Chinese government funding shortly after then-Vice President Biden visited China in December 2013, according to the investigative report.

of China, known as AVIC, and several other Chinese companies linked to the People’s Liberation Army.

Peter Schweizer, head of the Florida-based Government Accountability Institute and narrator of the film “Riding the Dragon: The Bidens’ Chinese Secrets,” said the documentary is based on corporate records, financial documents, legal briefings and court papers.

The Hunter Biden investigation revealed a largely hidden financial relationship between China and both Bidens, Mr.

Schweizer said in an interview.

Schweizer said.

Biden and Hunter Biden’s deals in China were corrupt.

The lawyer, George Mesires, said in a statement in October in response to questions about his client’s business activities that Hunter Biden served as an unpaid director to BHR and owned no equity in the company while his father was vice president from 2009 to 2017.

In October 2017, Hunter Biden invested $420,000 for a 10% stake in BHR, but as of October 2019 had not received any compensation for serving as a board member nor any return on the investment, his attorney said.

Hunter Biden promised not to serve on any foreign boards or work for foreign companies if his father becomes president, Mr.

“This new firm started making investment deals that would serve the strategic interests of the Chinese military,” Mr.

Schweizer said.

Schweizer said?

“Is it really that crazy to think that by partnering with the son of the vice president, [the Chinese] were trying to buy them too?” Mr

Both CGN and AVIC were listed by the Pentagon as military-linked Chinese companies in June