FLASHBACK: Biden made revealing comment about niece's Obama admin role while praising 'rising China'

FIRST ON FOX: Then-Vice President Biden boasted astir his Harvard-educated niece antecedently studying Chinese and surviving successful China while delivering a reside successful 2011 touting "a rising China" being "a positive, affirmative development, not only for China but for America…"

Biden gave a shout-out to Casey Owens, who was concluding her stint arsenic a typical adjunct for nan U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue astatine nan Treasury Department, while delivering remarks to nan opening convention of nan group, according to an email concatenation that was reviewed by Fox News Digital.

Owens, nan girl of Biden’s sister, emailed then-Vice President Biden’s "Auks" othername email reside successful May 2011, thanking him for nan "memorable day" and said it was "very, very humbling" watching him speak.

"And your remarks. That was really thing else, Uncle Joe. What a measurement to exit nan Treasury," Owens said, according to an email from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop. "I'm simply happy to beryllium adjacent to you, and I conscionable wanted to opportunity convey you for including me."

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President Biden's niece emailed him successful 2011 while he was serving arsenic vice president to lavish him pinch praise aft China speech. (Fox News )

In summation to nan email from Owens to nan elder Biden, a transcript from Biden’s speech was included successful nan email chain, highlighting what Biden thought astir a "rising China."

"We cannot declare nan aforesaid number of Americans successful China, but our 100,000 Strong Initiative will dramatically summation nan number of young Americans surviving and studying successful China," Biden said.  "As a matter of fact, my niece who -- excuse me, arsenic we opportunity successful nan Senate, a constituent a individual privilege -- who graduated from Harvard not excessively agelong ago, useful for Secretary Geithner, she did precisely what we dream different 100,000 will do: She studied Chinese and went and lived successful China and is now devoted to making judge nan narration gets amended and amended and better."

"As a young personnel of a Foreign Relations Committee, I wrote and I said and I believed past what I judge now: That a rising China is simply a positive, affirmative development, not only for China but for America and nan world writ large," he added.

The "100,000 Strong Initiative" that Biden mentioned refers to nan goal then-President Obama group adjacent nan opening of his management successful hopes of "sending 100,000 American students to China successful nan adjacent 4 years to study Mandarin, to acquisition Chinese culture, and to study astir nan hospitality of nan Chinese people, while they service arsenic ambassadors for nan United States successful China." 

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President Joe Biden speaks astatine a run arena astatine Pullman Yards connected March 9, 2024 successful Atlanta, Georgia. (Megan Varner/Getty Images)

Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said successful May 2010 she was "pleased to sign" an statement pinch State Councilor Liu Yandong, who has held immoderate of nan highest positions successful nan CCP. 

Fox News Digital previously reported connected really Yandong would meet pinch representatives from nan Congressional Black Caucus and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) a fewer years later and announced student scholarships.

"Our U.S.-China narration must widen beyond nan halls of authorities to our homes, our businesses, and our schools," Clinton continued. "And these exchanges really connection nan opportunity for group to link and collaborate, and they punctual america of really overmuch we person successful common."

During Owens’ tenure astatine Treasury, she many times emailed Hunter Biden and his now-former business partner Eric Schwerin astir China Investment Corporation (CIC), China’s largest sovereign wealthiness fund, Fox News Digital previously reported. A erstwhile business subordinate confirmed to Fox News Digital connected Monday that Owens was "definitely a resource" Hunter utilized and that a CIC gathering did occur.

On April 12, 2010, Owens emailed Hunter and Schwerin a schedule from her Treasury email address, highlighting a CIC finance convention that took spot a mates of weeks earlier.

On April 12, 2010, Casey Owens emailed Hunter Biden and Eric Schwerin a schedule from a CIC finance conference. (Fox News)

"FYI connected caller CIC finance convention astatine a edifice successful Sanya, connected Hainan Island, complete nan play of March 27-28," Owens wrote.

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A Thornton Group property merchandise dated that aforesaid time – April 12, 2010 – said nan company’s chairman, James Bulger, and Hunter visited Beijing conscionable 3 days earlier and met pinch CIC Chief Investment Officer Gao Xiqing, among others, according to nan Republican Senate study released successful September 2020.

A characteristic article astir Owens published months later by nan Tower Hill Bulletin said she and her squad had traveled to Beijing successful May 2010 pinch a U.S. delegation led by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

A photo of Owens successful nan article showed her receiving a "small jade vase arsenic a day gift" from China’s then-vice curate of finance, Zhu Guangyao. According to nan Ministry of Finance website, its superior usability is to instrumentality nan decisions and policies of nan Chinese Communist Party successful nan area of nationalist finance.

The Bulletin article said Owens’ squad and Zhu "worked very intimately during nan U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue." 

Weeks aft returning from Beijing, Owens emailed Schwerin a Bloomberg News article astir CIC, titled, "China’s CIC May Post Record Year for 2009 arsenic Markets Recover," which Schwerin past forwarded to Hunter connected July 23, 2010.

Owens, who now goes by Castello, near nan Treasury successful July 2011 and is presently an executive astatine Starbucks, according to her LinkedIn profile.

Owens isn’t nan only personnel of her contiguous family pinch ties to China. Fox News Digital antecedently reported connected really her dad, John "Jack" Owens, pleaded for Hunter to thief him unafraid a business licence to grow his telemedicine institution successful China, saying it needed to beryllium "secured very quickly."

The elder Owens emailed Hunter connected May 9, 2014, informing him that his companies, MediGuide America and MediGuide Insurance Services International (MISI), reached a "serious stage" successful negotiations pinch a China-based security company, but said he won’t beryllium capable to "seal this deal" without a "Chinese Business License." 

Hunter Biden's uncle, Jack Owens, reached retired to Hunter successful May 2014 asking him for thief successful expediting a Chinese "Business license" for his telemedicine companies. (Fox News)

"Time pressures are very tight, positive nan truth that we do not yet person 1 has caused a flimsy credibility bump successful nan company's mind. This each translates into a request for a Business License, and 1 secured very quickly," Owens wrote. "While this mightiness look to beryllium a mundane task, I person travel to understand that matters specified arsenic a Business License tin extremity up taking an inordinate magnitude of time.....time we conscionable do not have."

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Chinese President Xi Jinping adjusts his overgarment arsenic he stands to singing nan nationalist anthem astatine nan closing convention of nan National People's Congress held astatine nan Great Hall of nan People successful Beijing, Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Owens continued by saying he would beryllium "most appreciative of immoderate help." Hunter Biden replied little than a hr later and said, "Working connected it-back to you ASAP." The younger Biden past forwarded Owens’ email to Thornton Group Chairman James Bulger, nan nephew of mobster Whitey Bulger and co-founder of nan Thornton Group. 

He besides sent it to Michael Lin, a Taiwanese-American businessman who has worked pinch nan State Legislative Leaders Foundation (SLLF), a nonprofit that has been collaborated since 2015 pinch nan Chinese People's Association for Friendship pinch Foreign Countries, a propaganda group that pushes Chinese Communist Party (CCP) messaging. Lin and Bulger some arranged Hunter Biden's first business travel to China successful April 2010, nan Washington Free Beacon reported.

Hunter Biden, center, and his attorneys Abbe Lowell, right, and Kevin Morris, left, time off nan House Oversight and Accountability Committee markup titled "Resolution Recommending That The House Of Representatives Find Robert Hunter Biden In Contempt Of Congress," successful Rayburn Building connected Wednesday, January 10, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

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"See email below. It's from my Uncle Jack. Is location a measurement we tin thief him expedite this? Time is of nan principle here," Hunter Biden wrote.

Bulger responded nan adjacent greeting and said he would talk pinch Lin really they tin "help." Three days later, Bulger sent an email to Hunter saying, "Me and Michael had a telephone pinch Jack this greeting I deliberation we person a solution for hi[s] China problem."

Hunter Biden forwarded his Uncle Jack's email astir Mediguide to his longtime business associates, James Bulger and Michael Lin. (Fox News)

"Michael and Ran are researching nan regs and laws correct now but our Thornton WOFE will apt beryllium good for Jacks institution to use," Bulger continued, apt referring to nan wholly foreign-owned endeavor of nan Thornton Group, nan institution Bulger and Lin co-founded.

A fewer days later, Bulger sent an email to Owens and Lin, and copied Hunter Biden, asking Owens to "give america until Monday to reappraisal a fewer much laws and regulations successful Beijing."

"I whitethorn person you reply a fewer question[s] connected Monday truthful we tin get circumstantial pinch nan due authority's successful China," Bulger wrote.

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It is unclear whether Bulger and Lin were capable to successfully unafraid a business licence for Owens aliases whether Thornton’s "WOFE" sufficed for China’s laws. However, MediGuide’s website says it has travel to "an statement pinch AnyHealth Shanghai."

"MediGuide and Any Health intend to grow MediGuide’s business successful China nether nan sanction of ‘MediGuide China,’" nan website reads. "AnyHealth Shanghai will beryllium legally representing MediGuide International LLC successful China. " It is unclear if AnyHealth Shanghai is nan aforesaid institution referenced successful nan emails. 

Fox News Digital reached retired to nan White House and Owens for remark but did not person a response.

Fox News' Aubrie Spady contributed to this report.