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No its far more than that.

The Wall Street Journal is Newspaper of Record which means that the articles it publishes carry far more weight than your typical paper.

There are currently only 4 in the United States.

In addition this isn't just one individual, but the Editorial Board.

This is a big step.

The emails regarding Hunter's business in Ukraine have been widely reported. But as intriguing is a May 2017 email thread that includes a discussion about "remuneration packages" for six people as part of a business deal with a now-defunct Chinese energy titan, CEFC China Energy. The Chinese company was international news a few years ago, after the U.S. government charged a CEFC-funded organization with money laundering, and its CEO was detained by Chinese authorities. CNN reported in 2018 that "at its height" CEFC was "hard to distinguish" from the Chinese government.

According to the emails, both Bidens were in line in 2017 to benefit from a deal with CEFC. One email appears to identify Hunter Biden as "Chair/Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC." It also refers to financial payments in terms of "20" for "H" and "10 held by H for the big guy?"
Fox News says it has confirmed the veracity of the email with one of its recipients and that sources say the "big guy" is Joe Biden. An August 2017 email from "Robert Biden" (Hunter's legal first name) crows that the original deal was for $10 million a year in fees, but that it had since become "much more interesting to me and my family" because it included a share of "the equity and profits." The Biden campaign says the Veep's tax returns don't show any involvement with Chinese investments.

The Democratic-media refrain is that even if these latest emails are realagain, the Bidens don't deny their authenticitythey fail to prove Mr. Biden broke any law. But felonies aren't the minimum standard for political behavior. Mr. Biden was a private citizen in 2017 but was considering a presidential run. A transaction that would have made himor his sonpartners with an entity tied to the Chinese government raises questions about judgment and how he would handle China as President.
Joe Biden ought to clear the air on this China business in his own political interest. Is he the "big guy" in the email? What happened with the deal? China will be one of Mr. Biden's toughest foreign-policy challenges, and the unexplained documents won't go away once he's elected. If Republicans hold the Senate, you can bet there will be more digging.
President Trump, as usual, is muddying the story with inappropriate demands that the Department of Justice investigate a potential crime. But the real burden here should be on Mr. Biden and the press. Perhaps Joe Biden wasn't involved, and Hunter was using his father's name to advance his own business interests. But it's also possible that Joe Biden was aware of the CEFC business and was unwilling to tell his son that he couldn't trade on his father's name and position.
Whatever the truth, the public deserves better than Mr. Biden's Trump-like dismissal of the CBS reporter who so far is the only one brave enough to ask about the emails.