Hunter Biden, son of Joe Biden, scheduled an encounter between a powerful Chinese businessman he was working with and his father, then vice president, during a 2013 diplomatic trip, a new report alleges.

When Joe Biden flew to Beijing, China, for a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Hunter Biden insisted that he join both his father and daughter, Finnegan Biden, then 13, on the trip, according to The New Yorker.

After he arrived in the country, Hunter Biden, 49, arranged for Jonathan Li, who ran Chinese private-equity fund Bohai Capital, and worked as a business partner with Hunter Biden, to shake his father's hand in the lobby of his hotel. Hunter Biden and Li then met privately.

The meeting raised questions of impropriety considering Joe Biden's position of power at the time. But Hunter Biden dismissed such concerns.

“How do I go to Beijing, halfway around the world, and not see them for a cup of coffee?” he said.

Hunter Biden's decision to arrange the meeting generated concern within the Obama White House. A former senior White House aide told the New Yorker that he was "leveraging access for his benefit, which just wasn't done in that White House. Optics really mattered, and that seemed to be cutting it pretty close, even if nothing nefarious was going on."

Hunter Biden's business dealings have long been a headache for both his father and those who served within President Barack Obama's White House.

In 2016, Hunter Biden worked on the board of an energy company, Burisma Holdings, controlled by a Ukrainian oligarchy who had fallen under investigation by the nation's top prosecutor.