Joe Biden’s 2014 pick for U.S. Ambassador to China – Max Baucus – now serves as an adviser to a Chinese Communist Party-linked cryptocurrency exchange platform. The news follows a National Pulse exposé on Baucus, a “good friend,” frequent donor, and presidential campaign endorser of the former veep who now leverages the connections he gained during his 2014 to 2017 ambassadorship to “consult” for various Chinese Communist Party-linked companies. Baucus joined the cryptocurrency exchange Binance as a policy and government-relations adviser in March 2021. “Baucus’s role will be focused on providing guidance and policy advice covering some of the world’s most important financial jurisdictions and agencies. He
Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden’s pick for China ambassador during the Obama administration insisted that relations between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party would “reset” in a Biden presidency. This follows a National Pulse exposé on Baucus, a “good friend,” frequent donor, and endorser of the former veep who now leverages the connections he gained during his 2014 to 2017 ambassadorship to “consult” for various Chinese Communist Party (CCP) linked companies. Baucus – a cautionary tale of the composition of a Biden administration – said that, if elected, the candidate would deal with Beijing in a “much more traditional” way. “When it comes to China, I think
Max Baucus, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s top pick for Ambassador to China during the Obama years, insisted a Biden administration would be “less heated in his rhetoric and criticism of China” than President Trump. This follows a National Pulse exposé on Baucus, a “good friend,” frequent donor, and presidential campaign endorser of the former veep who now leverages the connections he gained during his 2014 to 2017 ambassadorship to “consult” for various Chinese Communist Party (CCP) linked companies. Having known Biden personally and worked together politically for over four decades, Baucus’s insistence that Biden would be softer on China, following him
President Obama’s Ambassador to China and the “good friend” of Joe Biden is apparently so “concerned” about the United States “preventing China’s rise” he is now actively appearing on Chinese Communist Party media outlets to blast President Trump and parrot Chinese government talking points. Max Baucus has turned his taxpayer-funded career politician status into a business consultancy for Chinese Communist Party-linked corporates like AliBaba, and now appears on Chinese state media outlets like CGTN, blasted by the Freedom House think tank as “A Long-standing Weapon in Beijing’s Arsenal of Repression”. Baucus, 78, is a former Congressman, Senator, and political appointee