A White House adviser says China gave him information on Joe Biden’s son around the same time Trump asked Beijing to investigate the Bidens

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• An informal White House adviser on China said Beijing gave him information about former Vice President Joe Biden's son around the same time President Donald Trump called on China to investigate the Bidens.
• "I got quite a bit of background on Hunter Biden from the Chinese," the adviser, Michael Pillsbury, told The Financial Times.
• Pillsbury's disclosure came days after China sought to distance itself from the controversy, with a top government official saying the country "has long pursued the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries."
• Trump has publicly urged both China and Ukraine to investigate the Bidens ahead of the 2020 election, an effort that House Democrats say is an impeachable offense.
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An informal White House adviser on China told The Financial Times he received information from Beijing about former Vice President Joe Biden's son's activities in China, the same week that President Donald Trump urged the country to probe the Bidens.

"I got quite a bit of background on Hunter Biden from the Chinese," the adviser, Michael Pillsbury, told The Times. His comments came after he said during an interview on Fox Business that he raised the issue of the Bidens with Chinese officials when he visited the country last week.

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