Hunter Biden firm helped a Chinese company purchase one of world's largest cobalt mines
An investment firm founded by Hunter Biden assisted a Chinese company in purchasing one of the world's richest cobalt mines from an American company for $3.8 billion - helping the conglomerate gain a massive share of the key metal used to make electric car batteries.
The president's son was one of three Americans who joined Chinese partners in establishing the Bohai Harvest RST Equity Investment Fund Management Company, or BHR, in 2013.
The Americans controlled 30 percent of the company and made successful investments that culminated in aiding China Molybdenum purchase the Tenke Fungurume cobalt mine in the Congo from the American company Freeport-McMoRan in 2016, the New York Times reported.
The news comes after President Joe Biden had warned that China could use its dominance of mined cobalt to disrupt America's development of electric vehicles.
It also adds to the scrutiny Biden and his father have faced for his dealings with Chines and Ukrainian companies while Joe was vice president and later running for president.
Hunter Biden (pictured on November 10) was one of three American founders of a investment firm primarily owned by Chinese partners. The firm helped secure the richest cobalt mine in the world for a Chinese company in 2016
Biden founded BHR with two other Americans and Chinese partners in 2013. He was no longer part of the board as of April 2020
Bohai Harvest RST Equity Investment Fund Management Company, or BHR, partnered with China Molybdenum to buy the Tenke Fungurume cobalt mine in the Congo (pictured)
Biden's firm made the deal with Joe Biden, right, was still vice president. The now president has warned that America's electric vehicle production could he stunted by China's dominance over cobalt, one of the key components of the electric batteries
BHR slowly made its way into an investment powerhouse after helping finance an Australian coal-mining company controlled by a Chinese state-owned firm, the paper reported.
The investment company's big break came in 2016 when it bought and sold a stake in CATL, a Chinese company that is now the world's biggest maker of batteries for electric vehicles.
That same year, China Molybdenum - one of the world's leading producers of the precious metals molybdenum and tungsten - announced it would purchase the Tenke Fungurume cobalt mine from Freeport-McMoRan, an American mining company.
But in order to purchase the mine, the Chinese company needed a partner to buy out one of the stakeholders, Lundin Mining of Canada.
That's when BHR came in to buy out Lundin with $1.14 billion raised entirely from obscure Chinese state-backed companies, according to the Times.
Biden still controlled 10 percent of BHR when its shares of the mines were sold to China Molybdenum in 2019.
上位の軍法である英国海事提督法によると、Admiralty Jurisdictionは以下の場所で適用される。(1)公海、(2)アメリカの船舶、(3)アメリカ合衆国の使用のために確保または取得された土地で、その排他的または併存的管轄権の下にあるもの、または州議会の同意によりアメリカ合衆国が購入またはその他の方法で取得した場所。＝グアンタナモ湾の軍事法廷GITMO
ハンター・バイデンの人生は、金曜日の朝8時、軍事委員会事務局の協力を得て、米海軍法務顧問団が彼を絞首刑に処したことで終わった。グアンタナモ湾の軍事法廷で、反逆罪（死刑）と未成年女性に対する数多くの性犯罪で有罪とされてからわずか数週間での死刑執行でした。
ハンター・バイデンが生きていた最後の時間は、他のディープステートのエージェントたちと驚くほど似ていた。朝6時に起こされ、最後の食事を与えられた。その後、GITMOの警備員が彼をキャンプ・デルタの出口まで連れて行き、ハンビーと3人の武装した海兵隊員が彼の到着を待っていた。そして、GITMOの南端まで行くと、そこには今月初めにビル・ゲイツが絞首刑にされたのと同じ絞首台がそびえ立っていた。
絞首台の周りには、クランドール海軍少将、デビッド・H・バーガー海兵隊大将、ジョナソン・P・ブラガ米陸軍中将（米陸軍特殊部隊司令官）などの軍人たちが集まっていた。
壇上には、海軍牧師と絞首台を担当した匿名の兵士が立っていた。
RRNでは、出席した他の高級将校の名前を伏せるように求められている。
壇上に続く浅い階段を上り、首に縄をかけられたバイデンは、クランドール少将から「最後に何か言いたいことはないか」「懺悔の言葉を述べたいか」と尋ねられた。
「私は民間人であり、政治家ではありません。私は政治家ではありません。私は政治家でもないし、ゲームに参加しているわけでもない」と反抗的なバイデンは言った。
"ゲーム？" クランダル少将が尋ねた。「絞首刑になりそうなのに、ゲームの話をしているのか。あなたはおそらくこれをチェスのゲームだと思い、自分をルークやクイーンだと思っていたのでしょう。あなたは常に駒であり、あなたが言うようにゲームに身を投じて、この国の象徴であるすべてのものに反して、暴走したのです。"
「すべてはバラクのせいだ。彼が全てのショットを指揮している。Covid-19から経済の低迷、国の崩壊まで、すべて彼の仕業だ。私は楽しんでいただけなのに」と匿名の兵士が縄を締め付ける中、バイデンは訴えた。
「もう知っていることを話す時間はありません」とクランドール少将が言った。
牧師が最後の儀式を行うと、一瞬のうちにトラップドアがバイデンの足元で開きました。彼の首が折れた。
「クランダル少将は集会で、「私はこのような死刑執行を監督することに何の変態的な喜びも感じません。"しかし、今日の正義は果たされた"
It says that Admiralty Jurisdiction is applicable in the following locations: (1) the high seas; (2) any American ship; (3) any lands reserved or acquired for the use of the United States, and under the exclusive or concurrent jurisdiction thereof, or any place purchased or otherwise acquired by the United States by consent of the legislature of the state.
Hunter Biden’s life ended Friday morning at 8:00 a.m. when the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps in cooperation with the Office of Military Commissions hanged him to death. His execution happened only a few weeks after a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay found him guilty of treason—a capital offense—and a myriad of sex crimes against underage women.
Hunter Biden’s last hours alive were remarkably like those of other Deep State agents. He was awoken at 6:00 a.m. and offered a last meal. Then, GITMO security escorted him to the exit of Camp Delta where a Humvee and three armed Marines awaited his arrival. He was then driven to GITMO’s southern edge, where the same gallows from which Bill Gates had been hanged earlier this month loomed before him.
Around the gallows stood a small assembly of military brass—Rear Adm. Crandall, Marine Corps General David H. Berger, and U.S. Army lieutenant General Johnathon P. Braga, commanding officer, U.S. Army Special Forces Command.
A Naval chaplain and an anonymous soldier, who manned the gallows, stood atop the platform.
RRN has been asked to keep confidential the names of other high-ranking officers in attendance.
After Biden ascended the shallow flight of steps leading to the platform and had a noose slipped around his neck, Rear Adm. Crandall asked if he had any last words, or wanted to give a statement of contrition.
“You can’t do this to me; I’m a civilian. I’m not a politician. I’m not in the game,” said a defiant Biden.
“Game?” Rear Adm. Crandall queried. “You’re about to be hanged, Mr. Biden, and you’re talking of games. You probably thought this was a chess game and saw yourself as a rook or even the queen. You were always a pawn, and you put yourself in the game, as you put it, and you ran amok, afoul of everything this country is supposed to stand for.”
“It was all Barack. He’s calling all the shots. He’s behind everything from Covid-19 to a tanking economy to wanting to see the country tear itself apart. All I ever did was have some fun,” Biden pleaded as the anonymous soldier tightened the noose.
“The time for telling us what we already know is over,” Rear Adm. Crandall said.
The chaplain gave Last Rites, and a moment later the trap door swung open beneath Biden’s feet. His neck snapped.
“I don’t take any sense of perverse pleasure in overseeing these executions,” Rear Adm. Crandall told the assembly. “But justice today has been served.”
このニュースの真偽は謎のパズルが埋まるほどに確証に変わる仕組みになっています。
