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Hunter Biden memoir listed ‘#1 Best Seller’ under ‘Chinese Biographies’ on Amazon

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Hunter Biden’s upcoming memoir “Beautiful Things” has been listed as “#1 Best Seller” in the subcategory of “Chinese Biographies” on Friday. President Joe Biden’s son has taken heat, especially from conservatives, for his foreign business dealings in places such as China and Ukraine while his father was vice president.

Hunter Biden’s new memoir will illustrate his battle with substance abuse, according to the Associated Press. His past struggles with addictions made national headlines back in October 2020 when a laptop that he allegedly owned and the information it contained were published by The New York Post in an exposé.

While the book will not be publicly available until April 6, many have already pre-ordered it.

As of 3:51 p.m. (EST), the memoir is still listed as No. 1 in the Chinese biographies subcategory. It should be noted that on the Chinese biographies page is the memoir “Disloyal” from Michael Cohen, a former lawyer for former President Donald Trump, and the successful book from author Jon Krakauer called “Into Thin Air.” Based on the subcategory page, the books appear to be those whose sales are trending within China, as opposed to the books being about or relating to China.

This reporter reached out to Amazon for comment but did not receive a response at the time of publication. This story will be updated to include their comment.

In the autumn of 2019, “Beautiful Things” was acquired but kept under wraps during the 2020 presidential election while Biden’s foreign business dealings became a target of then-President Trump and other conservatives and his finances being the center of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, according to the AP.

Ahead of the book’s release, numerous authors have heaped praise upon the work such as Stephen King, Dave Eggers and Anne Lamott.

“In his harrowing and compulsively readable memoir, Hunter Biden proves again that anybody — even the son of a United States President — can take a ride on the pink horse down nightmare alley,” King wrote in his blurb. “Biden remembers it all and tells it all with a bravery that is both heartbreaking and quite gorgeous. He starts with a question: Where’s Hunter? The answer is he’s in this book, the good, the bad, and the beautiful.”

In a segment released in advanced by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Biden writes in his memoir, “I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love.”

On Thursday, President and First Lady Biden released a statement saying, “We admire our son Hunter’s strength and courage to talk openly about his addiction so that others might see themselves in his journey and find hope.”

Back in the autumn during a presidential debate, then-candidate Biden defended his son after Trump went after him.

“My son, like a lot of people, like a lot of people you know at home, had a drug problem,” he said. “He’s overtaken it. He’s fixed it. He’s worked on it, and I’m proud of him. I’m proud of my son.”

The memoir’s title is a reference to a phrase that Hunter Biden and his late brother Beau would say to one another after the latter’s 2013 brain cancer diagnosis, according to Breitbart News. Beau Biden in 2015 tragically passed away as a result of the cancer.

Hunter Biden is the oldest surviving child of the commander-in-chief. Back in 1972, shortly after the now-president was first elected to the U.S. Senate for Delaware, lost his first wife Naomi and their 1-year-old daughter in a car accident. Both Hunter and Beau survived the accident and sustained injuries.

While his father was vice president and the Obama administration’s public face for its policy toward Ukraine, Hunter Biden was on the board of a Ukrainian energy firm called Burisma Holdings starting in 2014 and the business dealings he made in the country at that time have come under intense scrutiny, especially from conservatives. Reports, as well as Trump and others, allege that Biden leveraged his father’s position in these dealings.

There are reports, too, alleging that Biden engaged in suspicious dealings in China.

Back in December, Biden confirmed that his “tax affairs” were being investigated by federal authorities.

Shortly following Biden’s publicly confirming the investigation, then-President-elect Biden said “I’m proud of my son” in response to Fox News reporter Peter Doocy’s asking if he thought his son committed a crime.

RELATED: Biden says ‘I’m proud of my son’ to reporter who asked if Hunter committed a crime

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Report: Beijing’s military hacked U.S. nuclear firm before Hunter Biden aided Chinese bid to acquire it

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A bombshell report by Just the News explains that “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 attempted to assist CEFC China Energy to acquire Westinghouse, one of America’s most famous electricity and appliance brands, as well as its state-the-art AP1000 nuclear reactor.

Hunter began his work with the Chinese company in early 2016 – while Joe Biden was the sitting Vice President – memos show. According to a copy of the indictment, 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.

Just the News reports:

In May 2014, the five operatives of the People’s Liberation Army’s Unit 61398 were charged with hacking into the systems of six U.S.-based companies across different industrial sectors, including Westinghouse Electric Co., SolarWorld, United States Steel Corp., and a union. The attorney general at the time, Eric Holder, called the breach a classic case of “economic espionage.”

One operative gained access to Westinghouse’s computers in 2010 and “stole proprietary and confidential technical and design specifications related to pipes, pipe supports, and pipe routing” pertaining to the company’s advanced AP1000 nuclear reactor design, according to an indictment filed by the Department of Justice.

“Among other things, such specifications would enable a competitor to build a plant similar to the AP1000 without incurring significant research and development costs associated with designing similar pipes, pipe supports, and pipe routing systems,” the indictment reads.

Just the News notes that while there is no evidence at the moment that Hunter Biden was aware of or involved in the hacking efforts by the Chinese, documents previously released by Congress in the Biden impeachment inquiry show Hunter Biden wrote in one text message in 2017 that he believed one of the CEFC officials he worked with, Patrick Ho, was the “f—ing spy chief” of China.

Ho was later indicted in the U.S. and charged with corruption. Joe Biden’s brother James told the FBI he believed CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming had a relationship with China’s communist president.

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