Gilliar connected with Hunter Biden through trusted Biden family friend Rob Walker, a former Clinton administration official whose wife, Betsy Massey Walker, had been Jill Biden’s assistant when she was second lady. Gilliar had an idea who could help: the Biden family. Now he was looking for an influential partner to help with acquisitions in other locations around the world that had strategic significance for the Chinese state. To that end, Ye bought everything from a football team and a brewery to an airline, before being named “special economic adviser” to Czech President Milos Zeman. Ye’s task was to spend $1.5 billion as quickly as possible to ensure the Czech Republic would become China’s “Gateway to the European Union,” a priority of President Xi Jinping. James Gilliar, a wiry, 56-year-old British ex-SAS officer, got to know Ye Jianming, the 40-year-old chairman of CEFC, when they were both working in the Czech Republic.ĬEFC was a Chinese conglomerate, one of the largest energy companies in the world. In her new book, “ Laptop from Hell,” New York Post columnist Miranda Devine tells the tale: How do we know? Because of hundreds of emails documenting the deal found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, left in a Delaware repair shop in April 2019. The Biden family offered their services to a huge, Chinese government-linked energy consortium to expand its business around the world. WH flags art market as money laundering haven amid Hunter Biden shows The New York Post ‘happily’ offers some positive headlines for President Biden Hunter Biden never fails to catch a break, from the White House or the elite media A White House kowtow to Beijing and other commentary