During Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden’s Vice Presidential tenure, his 26-year-old niece coordinated the Obama administration’s China approach as a Special Assistant to the Treasury Department’s U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. Casey Owens, the latest member of the Biden family to benefit financially or professionally from the former Senator’s connections, joined “the highest-level bilateral economic forum” four years after graduating from college and a stint at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She wielded considerable influence over the direction of U.S.-China relations between 2009 and 2011, as she described her team as “advising” former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and responsible
