Beijing’s military hacked U.S. nuclear firm before Hunter Biden aided Chinese bid to acquire it – By Steven Richards and John Solomon (Just the News) / March 14, 2024
The 2014 indictment shows how Hunter Biden and his partner’s efforts to aid CEFC China Energy in acquiring Westinghouse mirrored China’s goals of civilian nuclear technology independence.
U.S. officials were acutely aware that Beijing was trying to obtain America’s premiere nuclear reactor technology, including through illicit hacking, months before Hunter Biden and his business partners sought to arrange a quiet sale of an iconic U.S. reactor company to a Chinese firm, according to court records and national security experts.
Hunter Biden’s unsuccessful efforts to help CEFC China Energy acquire Westinghouse, one of America’s most famous electricity and appliance brands, and its state-the-art AP1000 nuclear reactor began in early 2016 while Joe Biden was still a sitting vice president, memos published Wednesday by Just the News show.
Just 20 months earlier, his father’s Justice Department charged five members of a Chinese military hacking unit for breaching the company’s computer systems in search of intellectual property and internal strategy communications, according to a copy of the indictment.
