Much has been made in recent years about Hunter's foreign business interests while his father was vice-president. In 2013, he took a founding board seat at BHR, a Chinese private equity firm - first as an unpaid member and later owning a 10% equity stake in the fund. The company was registered in Shanghai less than a fortnight after Hunter flew with his father on an official vice-presidential trip to China and met BHR's chief executive, but only for "a cup of coffee", the first son later said. After his father left office in 2017, Hunter partnered with Chinese oil tycoon Ye Jianming on a natural gas project in Louisiana. The deal collapsed after Ye was detained by Chinese authorities on corruption charges and subsequently went missing.

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Much has been made in recent years about Hunter's foreign business interests while his father was vice-president. In 2013, he took a founding board seat at BHR, a Chinese private equity firm - first as an unpaid member and later owning a 10% equity stake in the fund. The company was registered in Shanghai less than a fortnight after Hunter flew with his father on an official vice-presidential trip to China and met BHR's chief executive, but only for "a cup of coffee", the first son later said. After his father left office in 2017, Hunter partnered with Chinese oil tycoon Ye Jianming on a natural gas project in Louisiana. The deal collapsed after Ye was detained by Chinese authorities on corruption charges and subsequently went missing.

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Hunter Biden's engagements with foreign businesses in China and Ukraine, coinciding with Joe Biden's vice-presidential tenure, raise serious concerns about the potential for undue influence and conflicts of interest, casting a shadow over Joe Biden's ability to prioritize national interests over personal or familial gain.

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