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A Chinese military company that was linked to Hunter Biden’s investment firm is now assisting the Russian military in the war in Ukraine, according to a report.
BHR Partners investment firm, where Hunter Biden was a board member and 10% stakeholder, worked with AVIC Automotive, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), to purchase the Michigan-based Henniges Automotive in September 2015, according to the Washington Examiner.
As the Wall Street Journal reported on February 4, AVIC’s subsidiary, AVIC International Holding Corporation, in October shipped $1.2 million worth of parts for Russian Su035 jet fighters to sanctioned Russian defense giant Rostec’s subsidiary Kret.
The Biden administration in recent weeks has warned that China is contemplating military aid to Ukraine, making Hunter Biden’s connection to a Chinese military company providing assistance to Russia a potential political headache for the administration.
The Washington Examiner reported that at the time that Hunter Biden’s BHR teamed up with AVIC in 2015, it was known even then that AVIC was teaming up with Russian military companies that were sanctioned due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and annexation of Crimea.
BHR in September 2015 said it was delighted to announce the purchase of Henniges for $600 million in collaboration with AVIC, the report said. --->READ MORE HERE
A Chinese military company that Hunter Biden’s investment firm teamed up with is now assisting the Russian air force in the war in Ukraine.
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, to purchase Michigan-based Henniges Automotive in September 2015.
The Wall Street Journal reported in February 2023 that AVIC subsidiary AVIC International Holding Corporation had shipped “$1.2 million worth of parts for Su-35 jet fighters” to sanctioned Russian defense conglomerate Rostec subsidiary Kret on Oct. 24, 2022. Although a number of Chinese companies have been sanctioned over Russia’s war in Ukraine, AVIC is not one of them. AVIC’s provision of Su-35 jet fighter parts to Russia is notable.
The Ukrainian military claimed in August 2022 that the Russians had lost roughly two dozen Su-35 jets during the war at that point. The Rand Corporation said in October 2022 that Russia needed to replace Su-35s lost in combat but that sanctions were hurting its ability to do so.
When Hunter Biden’s BHR teamed up with China’s AVIC in September 2015, it was already publicly known that AVIC was also teaming up with a number of Russian military companies, including Rostec, and that these Russian companies were being sanctioned related to Russia's annexation of Crimea in early 2014. In November 2021, Hunter Biden lawyer Chris Clark told the New York Times that his client "no longer holds any interest, directly or indirectly, in either BHR or Skaneateles," the LLC owned by Hunter Biden that held his 10% ownership stake in BHR. Clark declined to provide more clarity on this in 2022. --->READ MORE HERE
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