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2021-11-21 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Hunter Biden's private equity firm helped Chinese conglomerate buy American-owned cobalt mine in $3.8 billion deal: Purchase helped China company gain world's largest deposit of precious metal used to make batteries for electric vehicles
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Hunter Biden's investment firm partnered with a Chinese company to buy the world's larges cobalt mine from an American company in 2016

  • Biden was one of three Americans who founded the BHR private equity firm with Chinese partners in 2013

  • The firm helped buy out a minor stakeholder in the Congo's Tenke Fungurume cobalt mine to help China Molybdenum buy it from Freeport-McMoRan

  • The $3.8 billion deal helped secure China's dominance over the precious metal, which is one of the key components of the batteries used for electric vehicles

  • Earlier this year, Biden had warned that America's electric car development could be threatened by China's control over cobalt
Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-21 04:54|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top
 File under: Commies 

#1 Earlier this year, Biden had warned that America's electric car development could be threatened by China's control over cobalt

Brandon warned, not Hunter, right? Maybe Hunter didn't tell Daddy, or maybe Daddy forgot?
Posted by Bobby 2021-11-21 08:12||   2021-11-21 08:12|| Front Page Top

#2 

COBALT also makes a nasty dirty bomb, with a half life of 5.2 years.
Posted by NN2N1 2021-11-21 08:22||   2021-11-21 08:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Curiouser and curiouser. FCX is Louisiana-based. Why did they sell the mine? Even if it made sense for them to focus on their core metal, copper, why were they permitted to sell it to the Chinese?

Oh, 2016... got it. That would be when Plugs was VP and he and the Crackpipe Kid were flying around the world on Air Force Two, doing deals with state bandits, sniffing hair and snorting coke
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-21 09:26||   2021-11-21 09:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Plugs was VP and he and the Crackpipe Kid were flying around the world on Air Force Two, doing deals with state bandits

And "Madame Secretary" was doing the Uranium One deal...
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-11-21 09:32||   2021-11-21 09:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Is there any way to reverse these ‘sales’?
Posted by Shiva Protector of the Hohlraums 2021-11-21 11:10||   2021-11-21 11:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Nationalize the mine.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-11-21 18:47||   2021-11-21 18:47|| Front Page Top

#7 That's what Xi would do.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-11-21 18:47||   2021-11-21 18:47|| Front Page Top

#8 If it was the real America of Reagan, he would shit himself, because the "Big Guy" would not put up with Xi's Bullshit.... Wimps you all are ...take the last of your testosterones' amd make something happen good...burgers
Posted by Phish Noodleman4470 2021-11-21 21:07||   2021-11-21 21:07|| Front Page Top

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