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President Trump and his allies have tried to paint the Democratic nominee, Joseph R. Biden Jr., as soft on China, in part by pointing to his son's business dealings there.

Senate Republicans produced a report asserting, among other things, that Mr. Biden's son Hunter "opened a bank account" with a Chinese businessman, part of what it said were his numerous connections to "foreign nationals and foreign governments across the globe."

But Mr. Trump's own business history is filled with overseas financial deals, and some have involved the Chinese state. He spent a decade unsuccessfully pursuing projects in China, operating an office there during his first run for president and forging a partnership with a major government-controlled company.

And it turns out that China is one of only three foreign nations — the others are Britain and Ireland — where Mr. Trump maintains a bank account, according to an analysis of the president's tax records, which were obtained by The New York Times. The foreign accounts do not show up on Mr. Trump's public financial disclosures, where he must list personal assets, because they are held under corporate names. The identities of the financial institutions are not clear.

The Chinese account is controlled by Trump International Hotels Management L.L.C., which the tax records show paid $188,561 in taxes in China while pursuing licensing deals there from 2013 to 2015.

The tax records do not include details on how much money may have passed through the overseas accounts, though the Internal Revenue Service does require filers to report the portion of their income derived from other countries. The British and Irish accounts are held by companies that operate Mr. Trump's golf courses in Scotland and Ireland, which regularly report millions of dollars in revenue from those countries. Trump International Hotels Management reported just a few thousand dollars from China.

www.nytimes.com

Trump Records Shed New Light on Chinese Business Pursuits (Published 2020)

As he raises questions about his opponent’s standing with China, President Trump’s taxes reveal details about his own activities there, including a previously unknown bank account.

 

Realmatic1

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Oct 27, 2017
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NY Times with the slow drip before Election Day, Trump and the rest the GOP are all projection
 

FF Seraphim

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Oct 26, 2017
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Trump is the same guy who told Xi to keep making those force labor camps. Yeah I am sure he has vested interest in keeping China happy.
 

Parthenios

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Oct 28, 2017
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He paid 200x more in Chinese taxes than U.S taxes omfg lmao

(This is not funny and just another symptom of the decrepitude of the late stage U.S.)
 

Sho_Nuff82

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Nov 14, 2017
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It's always projection.

Always. And now he's saying he's concerned about pedophilia...





Trump followed the Putin playbook to a T. He started accusations about Biden's son and the BIden family taking money from China to douse water on the accusations he knew would eventually come about Ivanka and his own China dealings.
 

Beignet

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Aug 1, 2020
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Not surprised at all tbh. Theres been a whiff of a money trail between him and China for a long time, glad its finally out for the public to see
 

Tokyo_Funk

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Dec 10, 2018
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In this weeks episode of "Trump's America, you won't believe what he does next...!"

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Oh, yeah we do, because it is foreshadowed in all his speeches.
 

Sho_Nuff82

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Nov 14, 2017
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BUT HUNTER IS THE CHINA PERSON!

NY Times is fake news.
Russia and Ukraine interfered to help Hillary.
Senate confirmations make it impossible to drain the swamp.
Republicans want to protect pre-existing conditions.
Democrats want to pack the courts.
White Male Christian Conservatives are the most persecuted group.
Listening to Fauci would've tripled the COVID death count.
War is Peace.
 

Version 3.0

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Oct 27, 2017
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Another October surprise that would be devastating to any other politician.

Well, in other times. In the crazy times we live in, if this story were about Biden, it wouldn't sink him. It'd be more damaging to him than Trump, I expect, but anti-Trump sentiment is so strong that Biden could probably get away with a lot, too. Trump is so terrible he actually shields his opponent from scrutiny.
 

RisingStar

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Oct 8, 2019
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Does this matter in the long run? Most people will ignore it, his base won't believe it and he won't be punished once he loses anyway. I'd be more surprised and actually impressed if this piles up enough for him to get in trouble.