Guardian -Ivanka Trump won China trademarks days before her father's reversal on ZTE

[malaise]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/28/ivanka-trump-won-china-trademarks-donald-trump-zte-reversal
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Ivanka Trump’s fashion and homewares business received initial approval from the Chinese government for five trademark applications days before her father announced a U-turn in policy on ZTE, a Chinese telecoms firm that has admitted breaking US sanctions on Iran and North Korea.

Chinese trademark documents detailing the approvals were made public by Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington (Crew), a watchdog group. The group said the first daughter and White House adviser, who represents the US at diplomatic events, already held more than a dozen trademarks in China and multiple pending applications. Donald Trump holds more than 100 trademarks in China.

In the last three months, with what experts say is unusual speed, China has granted final approval for 13 trademarks and provisional approval for eight more. According to the New York Times, Ivanka Trump now holds 34 trademarks in the world’s second-largest economy. While she does not have a large business in China, most of her US imports are shipped from there. Clothing has been exempted from tariffs threatened by her father as part of his aggressive trade policy.
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Crew executive director Noah Bookbinder told the Associated Press the timing of the announcement “raises significant questions about corruption, as it invites the possibility that [Ivanka Trump] could be benefiting financially from her position and her father’s presidency or that she could be influenced in her policy work by countries’ treatment of her business”.

In an open letter, Crew chair and former White House ethics chief Norm Eisen and Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, a nonprofit that advocates for campaign finance reform, wrote that Donald Trump’s children, Ivanka, Donald Jr and Eric, and son-in-law Jared Kushner “engage in business activities and trade on their relationship with the president to pursue business deals and accumulate wealth”.

Jebus Effin' Krist - when will this stop?

[Hekate]

1. To answer your question: It will end when the whole passle of them are in prison...

I hope Ivanka "that is an inappropriate question to ask a daughter" Trump is one of them who gets fitted for an orange suit.

[treestar]

2. And they are so obvious!

And where is the media to spend the same amount of time they spent on Benghazi for this one?

[Gothmog]

3. From CREW

Link to tweet

[smirkymonkey]

4. They are so blatant about it all.

I can't tell if they are monumentally stupid or if they have an ace up their sleeve which lets them know they will get away with it all.

[malaise]

6. Just thieves who believe laws don't apply to them

but blame those who failed to lock them up

[malaise]

5. But don't you dare call them names1