I don't really see why they wouldn't be, where is the pro-china coalition in politics at the moment? On top of that, the idea that because Biden didn't go around saying "China!" in an amusing fashion doesn't mean he's best buddies with Xi Jinping.
People who stand to make money off of business with China will always win against people who don't stand to lose money by curtailing it. It's a matter of commitment.
What is the play with Biden and China? It makes no sense to any part of his base, and it just reeks of koolaid-drinking.
> What is the play with Biden and China?
There's nothing underhanded going on between Biden and China, at least not in my mind. But Biden campaigned on returning to the status quo, meaning little action on China. They're implementing these EOs now because they think he won't undo them, but he won't pass them either if given the choice.
Attorney general of Delaware: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/10/what-is-known-abou...
Family business associate: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v4NcaxJifxY&feature=youtu.be
Senate report: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Rep...
edit: you have provided a citation now - Tucker Carlson..., but is that it? So there's no evidence of any services being rendered, or anything even close to a smoking gun other than proof that Beau was the better Biden?
Top result for me https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/09/28/hunter-biden-senate-r...
Very loudly states The report presents no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden, and omits testimony that exculpates him
You can actually find an archive dump of the laptop on the internet yourself (there’s emails, photos, etc).
I linked to the actual full senate report. See below:
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Rep...
Most of the videos about this have been scrubbed / are not searchable on Google or YouTube. DuckDuckGo will let you search some stuff.
The laptop doesn’t directly link Joe Biden. However, Joe Biden did use airforce two to fly himself and son to China. Shortly after Hunter closed a deal with China.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/29/secret-service...
Joe Biden’s brother James is also under investigation.
Brother: https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/22/while-the-spotlight-shi...
However, obviously corruption is corruption.
Hunter has no useful skills, so what possible reason would the CCP even talk to him, let alone give him $1 billion, aside from influencing Joe?
Money. It lets them whitewash their investments; It's the system by which Theranos had all kinds of Randoms on the board.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/may/22/hunter-biden-...
The idea that they just gave him a billion dollars in his current account and said toodle-pip is literally just propaganda from the Trump campaign.
To put one thing to bed, he shouldn't have been in China in the first place, but the idea that Joe Biden is going to suddenly start doing China's bidding is ridiculous. What does he gain from doing it? The risk/reward is terrible.
As with everything Trump accuses anyone of, it's just projection because he has been consistently criticized and threatened with litigations over his business dealings - https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/donald-trump-chinese... his companies have hundreds of millions in completely dark debt, secret bank accounts in china etc. If you read the art of the deal, it's his entire MO - trust no-one, always attack when attacked and so on and so forth. That's why he said "No puppet, no puppet, you're the puppet" in the debate rather than actually contesting the argument.
The idea that Biden will take a hard line on China is equally ridiculous. He's been in the federal government since before Mao died. If he was going to take a hard line on China he had decades to do it and never did.
As I've said elsewhere, politicians can be remarkably flexible. Ignoring that there is no realpolitik for him to have been hard on china while the country was liberalizing, close to 90% of Republicans and a supermajority of democrats thinks China is a strategic enemy of the US - you gain nothing from being soft on china in today's political climate.