a schedule from a CIC investment conference that took place a couple of weeks earlier.
A photo of Owens in the article showed her receiving a"small jade vase as a birthday gift" from China’s then-vice minister of finance, Zhu Guangyao. According to the Ministry of Finance website, its primary function is to implement the decisions and policies of the Chinese Communist Party in the area of public finance.
Weeks after returning from Beijing, Owens emailed Schwerin a Bloomberg News article about CIC, titled,"China’s CIC May Post Record Year for 2009 as Markets Recover," which Schwerin then forwarded to Hunter on July 23, 2010.Then on Aug. 4, 2010, Schwerin introduced Owens to Meridian Investments Vice Chairman Jack Casey via email after Schwerin said he had a conversation with him earlier that day about"GSEs and China.
On March 8, 2011, Schwerin sent Hunter and Rosemont Seneca co-founder Devon Archer an email containing the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute’s current list of the top sovereign wealth funds, which are state-owned, and their rankings at the time. Then-Vice President Joe Biden, left, and his son Hunter Biden attend a women's ice hockey preliminary game between the United States and China at UBC Thunderbird Arena on Feb. 14, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada.