Biden appointee played key role in recruiting Chinese businesses to Delaware: 'Longtime friends'

FIRST ON FOX: A Biden appointee, who has donated tens of thousands of dollars to his campaigns and is married to a top former aide of then-Sen. Biden, has played an instrumental role in recruiting Chinese businesses to Delaware.

Michael Marquardt, who Biden appointed in 2022 to the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, has spent the last two decades advising international companies and in recent years helping the Delaware Prosperity Partnership (DPP) recruit Chinese businesses to invest in Delaware.

Marquardt, who has served as a "global advisor" of DPP since 2017, has used his social media accounts to highlight his work in introducing Chinese business leaders and Chinese companies to Delaware.

"Today we welcomed more than 50 of the Chinese business executives to The First State, a visit planned and sponsored by Bank of China," Marquardt wrote in a 2015 Facebook post. "After a program highlighting the benefits and advantages of Delaware as a ‘gateway to America’ we toured one of the country's fastest growing companies – Incyte Corporation. Our visitors were very impressed. Delaware is the only State they are visiting other than New York City and Washington DC (for sightseeing)."

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A day earlier, Marquardt posted on his Facebook profile from New York City about then-Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, a Biden ally, being presented "with the International Leadership Award from China's General Chamber of Commerce at Bank of China's new US headquarters building in Manhattan at 7 Bryant Park."

"The building is actually not yet finished and it was amazing to see it before it officially opens," Marquardt