According to public records, at least $54 million was donated to the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington by individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) between 2014 and 2019. The Penn Biden Center is where several classified documents were located in early November, locked in a closet in President Biden’s former office.
According to NLPC’s complaint, Hunter’s laptop contained a 2017 text linking CEFC China Energy with the Penn Biden Center. The CEFC was trying to lobby American politicians without registering as a foreign lobbyist while Hunter Biden was concurrently attempting to broker a deal with the CEFC in which Joe Biden would receive a 10 percent equity stake in the deal, according to Tony Bobulinski, Hunter Biden’s former business partner.
On May 1, 2017, Hunter Biden texted Bobulinski, “We don’t want to have to register as foreign agents under the FCPA [sic], which… is much more expansive than people who should know choose not to know.”
Meanwhile, the University of Pennsylvania has denied that the Biden Center received any anonymous donations from the Chinese.