Joe Biden’s appearance at a CEFC meeting may be perfectly legal, but in counterintelligence terms, since that firm was a Chinese spy front, the former vice president showing up at that meeting would be taken by Beijing as a vote of approval, and not unreasonably. This has counterintelligence implications, given that Biden, Inc. took almost $5 million from CEFC — that is, from Chinese Communist intelligence.

In Beijing’s eyes, Joe Biden endorsed his family’s dealings with CEFC by showing up at that meeting, which means that our current president is considered to be their ” agent of influence ” (just as Hunter Biden surely is too). This isn’t a spy in conventional understanding, and the term comes from the Russians, who taught Beijing how to spy many decades ago. Joe Biden may even be unaware of his involvement with Chinese espionage. Given the president’s frequent confusion in public, he may not recall that CEFC meeting.

We can be certain that Beijing does, however.

[The whistleblowers confirm some of what has already come out in terms of influence. John covers it well at WashEx and on his Substack. The real question this raises, however, is why the FBI was so disinterested in this issue, given its mandate for domestic counter-intelligence. And I think we *all* know the reason for that disinterest, at least at the leadership level. — Ed]