WASHINGTON • Emails obtained by the New York Post that were purportedly from Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, shed further light on his pursuit of lucrative deals connected to shady Chinese businessmen who have since been convicted of crimes in the United States or have disappeared in China.

Within a few hours of the piece publishing Thursday, the New York Post link was blocked by Twitter, similar to the action taken by the social media giant Wednesday in response to an article detailing emails showing an executive at the Ukrainian energy giant Burisma thanking Hunter Biden for setting up a meeting with his father — a meeting that Joe Biden’s campaign says did not occur as described by the outlet. The emails have not been independently obtained by the Washington Examiner, but the Biden campaign has not disputed their veracity, and the new emails fit Hunter Biden’s pattern of seeking deals in China. Hunter Biden’s lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.

One newly revealed email from James Gilliar, a member of the J2CR international consulting firm, to Hunter Biden, is dated May 13, 2017, and it discusses “expectations” of a yet-unclear deal while claiming that “we have discussed and agreed the following renumeration packages.”

The email notes that “Hunter” would receive “850” (in context, this appears to mean $850,000) and lists him as “Chair / Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC” — the China Energy Fund Committee.

CEFC China Energy is a multibillion-dollar Chinese conglomerate founded by Ye Jianming, a Chinese Communist Party-linked business tycoon who has since disappeared in China but with whom Hunter Biden had attempted to work out numerous deals.