Are the Chicoms getting their money's worth from the Bidens?

 Andrew McCarthy:

Is there anything more infuriating than the Biden administration’s public rhetoric — or, rather, its lack of meaningful rhetoric — in response to the Chinese people’s valorous protests against the monstrous communist regime that enslaves them? Jimmy Quinn has a post on the latest drivel to come out of the White House.

I found yesterday’s commentary by the administration’s national-security spokesman, retired rear admiral John Kirby, especially disheartening. He avoided any criticism, much less condemnation, of Xi Jinping’s regime, mouthing instead the Biden line that everyone should have the right of peaceful protest — which, of course, the Chinese are denied because of lethal repression by the regime. The White House, Kirby insisted, won’t speak for the protesters because they are speaking for themselves. Translation: The Biden administration does not want to be perceived as sympathetic to truth-telling about the Xi regime’s atrocities.

At the risk of belaboring what I’ve been saying for a couple of years, the Biden family scandal — the millions of dollars that agents of the Chinese government (among other agents of corrupt and hostile regimes) poured into the family coffers during the Obama and Trump years — cannot be disaggregated from Biden administration policy positions on China. Let’s say the Trump family, or, to take the Trump lightning rod out of the equation, the family of any Republican president had been receiving millions of dollars from China and then went mum as China brutally repressed its people, even as it structures its budget and governance to prepare every day for war against the United States. Let’s say the family of a Republican president had partnered with Chinese financial heavyweights (after a member of the family rode to Beijing on Air Force 2 with the Republican then–vice president) on a multi-billion-dollar investment venture that resulted (among other things) in China’s acquisition of technology with military applications, as well as coveted natural resources (in this instance, a $3.8 billion cobalt mine in Africa). Let’s say the Republican president’s family took in $6 million during one year from what turned out to be a Chinese intelligence operation that was under investigation by the Justice Department (and don’t even get me started on how $1 million of that was to provide legal representation for one of the Chinese spies — i.e., to help a patent arm of the Chinese regime try to figure out why U.S. law-enforcement and intelligence agencies were snooping around).

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The Bidens appear to be worth every penny they got from China when it comes to doing something truly meaningful about the repression going on in China.  You know if the Trump family had done the same thing and acted as the Bidens did and are doing there would be calls for impeachment. Don't forget it was not just Hunter who profited.  There was 10% for the "Big Guy" who has since been identified as Joe Biden.