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Biden’s Asia Czar Failed To Disclose Speech Payments From Pro-China Investment Firm

by Chuck Ross


President Joe Biden’s Asia czar failed to disclose tens of thousands of dollars in speaking fees from a private equity firm with close ties to China, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Kurt Campbell, the head of Indo-Pacific affairs at the National Security Council, disclosed to the Office of Government Ethics in a filing released Thursday that he received $50,000 for two speeches to Blackstone in late 2020. Campbell’s initial January 2021 disclosures did not list the speeches, nor one that he gave to the Prospect Foundation, a Taiwanese think tank.

Campbell submitted his revised financial disclosure on Dec. 23, a day after his wife, Lael Brainard, submitted her own disclosure after being nominated to serve as vice chair of the Federal Reserve. Brainard’s confirmation hearing was held last Thursday before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee. Brainard has come under scrutiny for refusing to say whether she is socialist or capitalist and for her remarks about the Chinese Communist Party…


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