Chinese business partner of Joe Biden’s son yet to decide whether to comment after Donald Trump’s call for investigation
- US president urged China to review the activities of the son of former vice-president though a similar call to Ukraine triggered an impeachment inquiry
- State-backed BHR Equity Investment Fund Management says it is conducting an ‘internal study’ about whether and how to explain the younger Biden’s role
A key Chinese business partner of Hunter Biden said the Chinese state-backed private equity company was conducting “internal studies” on whether, and how, to explain the son of former vice-president Joe Biden’s role in the company.
Jonathan Li Xiangsheng, the chief executive of BHR Equity Investment Fund Management Company, said the firm was working to produce an explanation about Hunter’s role when he was reached by the South China Morning Post by telephone, but declined to elaborate.
Filings in China’s National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System, a government-run corporate database, show that Hunter is a director of the firm, but the company’s website, when it was still accessible last week, had taken down pictures and profiles of Hunter.
“When Biden’s son walks out of China with US$1.5 billion in a fund, and the biggest funds in the world can’t get money out of China, and he’s there for one quick meeting and he flies in on Air Force Two, I think that’s a horrible thing,” Trump said.