Thanks I didn't click through.

My general feeling on your comments below is that you got right Biden now has an impossible job with regard to China relations if he wins. Any move he makes toward armistice will reek of corruption (e.g. slashing tariffs). To that end, its has always been my view that he'd be out of office within a year and Kamala would be president. This only stands to reinforce that view.

As to the assessment of Biden's role in wrong doing, I think it's journalistically obvious that he knew exactly what was happening, even if he wasn't being paid directly. Glenn Greenwald wrote well about how obvious the Ukrainian prosecutor quid pro quo was, which I also copy below.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-biden-censored?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0NTA0ODksInBvc3RfaWQiOjE1ODQ4ODg4LCJfIjoiVzUrRGYiLCJpYXQiOjE2MDQwMTA2NjQsImV4cCI6MTYwNDAxNDI2NCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTEyODY2MiIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ._mLjXXyWLXF6y4bXSKZogLXANdUSQEU7E_gY9WnIVkw

I have read the news stories and read the research report, which was sent to me by the author. I have been struggling with how to process the information and what to say about it, so I am going to take the easy way out and tell you that I think David Barboza said it well today at TheWireChina:

"I can understand the reluctance of the national press to follow the New York Post on the Hunter Biden story given that these are documents put forward by Rudy Giuliani, just weeks before the election. What is the vetting process and the background work to ensure it really is what it claims to be? But I also want to watch this space. I worked on the Hunter Biden/CEFC story for the NYT, and it seems to me this story has not yet run its course."

Nothing I have seen so far suggests that Vice President Biden did anything wrong, and I would be surprised if this issue plays a determining role in the upcoming US election. But if Biden wins his son’s dealings may actually constrain Biden’s ability to take a softer approach towards China, if that is his intention, as any perceived “weakness” would be attacked as linked to Hunter’s dealings and the CCP efforts to influence him.