Who is the Chair?
It could go either to Biden as "Peter Henderson" or to the Chairman of China.
1997: Sen. Joe Biden became a ranking member of theSenate Foreign Relations Committee<SFRC>, a standing committee of the U.S. Senate leading foreign policy legislation and debate in the Senate.The SFRC oversees the funding of foreign aid programs, arm sales to national allies, international treaty negotiations, and diplomatic nominations.The SFRC is a critical U.S. government department that can have a disproportionate effect on its development and position in geopolitics.Any SFRC member would be valuable as an intelligence assetor for swinging policy to a foreign country.BIDEN’s membership came at a critical time for China, when it applied to join the World Trade Organization<WTO>. Membership would enable China to trade more freely with the rest of the world to boost its economic development. It would also enable China’s wealthy politicians and politically connected elite to prosper and profit from the trade boom, money they would later want to invest overseas.During China’s application, BIDEN (as did many other US politicians at the time) supported free-trade legislation that helped China join the WTO.Remember, Trump has been against this free trade, ran on it on his first campaign.
In 2001, when China was admitted,BIDEN became SFRC chairman, holding a position of significant global influence in which he should have acted in the US national interest.
August, 2001: Joe BIDEN,the SFRC chairman, visited China for state-level talks with then CPC Chairman Jiang Zemin (江泽民), where BIDEN was tough with China on issues such as weapons proliferation, its judicial system, and human rights record. But as the 2000's progressed, BIDEN became gradually more accommodating of China’s rise. He was pictured in 2004, meeting the Chinese Ambassador to the US at the time,YANG.
Then, others in government in the U.S. began accommodating China:
For instance, in 2005, Mayor Han Zheng visited San Francisco.Senator Dianne Feinstein, Mayor Gavin Newsom, and over 50 delegates conducted a San Francisco Trade and Friendship Mission to Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong organized by James Fang, Chairman of the San Francisco-Shanghai Sister City Committee. New projects between San Francisco and Shanghai were a Shanghai Healing Garden at University of California San Francisco's Osher Center, Middle School Exchanges, Business Management Program executive fellows sent to Shanghai, Policy and Public Security Exchanges, and San Francisco Symphony led by Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas were to go on a historic two-week tour in China.
January, 2007: Joe BIDEN was re-elected as SFRC chairman and announced his second bid for the presidency on the 7th, and as he and his family's relationship with China had been increasing.
But, in January, 2009, John Kerry became Chairman of the SFRC, again, someone involved with the Biden family crimes.