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Another 10% for the big guy?
Looks like China is cashing in on their 'gifts' to Joe Biden.

'Biden granted Chinese spies clemency, made no announcement'

'he Biden family links to China long have been the subject of
speculation about their extent, and their impact on his presidential
decisions'

<https://www.wnd.com/2024/12/biden-granted-chinese-spies-clemency-made-no-announcement/>

'Media outlets across America were headlining Joe Biden's announcement
Thursday that he has granted a couple dozen more pardons and hundreds
and hundreds of commutations.

But one headline getting attention was that about Biden's grant of
clemency for a couple of Chinese spies, and the fact Biden did it
without making any announcement.

The Biden family links to China long have been the subject of
speculation about their extent, and their impact on his presidential
decisions. Son Hunter Biden once traveled to China with then Vice
President Biden and came back with a multi-million dollar business deal.

The secret clemency acts were described by the Federalist.

"X user Nick Sortor posted that 'Joe Biden just pardoned multiple
Chinese spies and an individual convicted of possessing child
p*rnography. WHY?'" charged the report, which noted Biden "did it
quietly only days before Thanksgiving."

"While most Americans were finalizing their menus and getting into the
holiday spirit, Biden commuted the sentence of Yanjun Xu on November 22.
Xu was convicted in 2022 for 'conspiracy to commit economic espionage; conspiracy to commit trade secret theft; attempted economic espionage by
theft or fraud; attempted theft of trade secrets by taking or
deception.'"

Biden's conclusion, as he said in his pardon, was, "it is in the
national interest that the term of imprisonment related to the aforesaid conviction not be served in its entirety."

Xu was told to leave the U.S. and never return.

"Similarly, spy Ji Chaoqun was convicted of 'conspiracy to defraud the
United States; impersonating agents of foreign governments; statements
or entries generally,'" the Federalist report said.

He had arrived in the U.S. in 2013, later enlisting in the U.S. Army
Reserves under a program for those with "special skills."

Federal authorities in Illionois said, "Ji worked at the direction of high-level intelligence officers in the Jiangsu Province Ministry of
State Security, a provincial department of the Ministry of State
Security for the People's Republic of China."

Biden commuted the sentence, with the Chicago Sun-Times confirming it
was "with no fanfare or public announcement."

The report continued, "Even more disturbing, Biden also granted clemency
to Shanlin Jin, who was convicted after 'police found more than 47,000
images and videos of child pornography in his computer.'"

The Financial Times suggested the executive actions were "part of a
prisoner swap" involving Mark Sweden, Kai Li and John Leung. However,
such swaps typically are promoted by the president making them.'

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