Biden Campaign Co-Chair Has Deep China Connections, Met With Xi Jinping

Hold on to your hats, folks! President Joe Biden’s newly announced reelection campaign has already stirred up controversy. One of the national co-chairs for the 2024 campaign, Jeffrey Katzenberg, has been found to have connections to the Chinese government.

Katzenberg, former chairman of Disney and DreamWorks, has inked deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Chinese companies during his years as a corporate CEO. He even visited the country every month for years while working out these deals. Now, he’s been appointed as a co-chair for Biden’s reelection campaign.

But that’s not all. Katzenberg has also taken several meetings with then-vice president of China Xi Jinping, as reported by Fox News. In 2012, when Katzenberg was at DreamWorks, the company announced a multi-billion-dollar deal with the Chinese government to build a production studio in Shanghai. This deal effectively increased the number of U.S. films that could be released in the Chinese market each year and came just days after then-Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping met with then-President Barack Obama in Washington. Xi even traveled to Los Angeles to meet with Katzenberg and both men were featured at a ceremony inking the deal.

It’s worth noting that Biden himself played a central role in pushing Hollywood’s entry into Chinese markets during the Obama administration, meeting with Xi multiple times during the Chinese leader’s trip to the U.S. in 2012 — with Katzenberg often showing up. And now, Biden has elevated Katzenberg to a prominent role in his reelection campaign.

What’s more, this comes just a month after the Biden administration moved to allow schools with Chinese-funded Confucius Institute chapters to circumvent a ban on receiving federal funds. With all these connections to China, it’s no wonder that concerns about liability and security are mounting.