The Chinese government granted a trademark approval on Sunday to Ivanka Trump’s company for the 13th time in the last three months — raising questions about conflicts of interest at the White House, Time reported. While the first daughter ended her management of the Ivanka brand when she took on a senior adviser role in…
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced on Sunday that the U.S. and China can step back from imposing punishing tariffs on each other’s exports, The Guardian reported. President Trump delegated Mnuchin to be the point man on the China negotiations. “We’re putting the trade war on hold, right now, we have agreed to put the tariffs…
Officials in at least four countries, including Israel and China, have held internal discussions over how to take advantage of presidential advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner’s inexperience and financial incentives in order to shape U.S. policy, The Washington Post reported Tuesday, citing current and former U.S. officials who had seen relevant intelligence reports. The report also claims…
Tikkun olam can be a nebulous term. Caked in abstract notions of “repairing the world,” the phrase is maligned by some as often being in practice nothing more than a motto hippy-dippy Jews recite to make themselves feel good. After all, how is the “world” actually being repaired? Danny Dilulio’s adoring fans in Chinese nursing…
Shortly after assuming his job as senior adviser to the president, Jared Kushner received an unusual warning from intelligence officials. His close friend, Wendi Deng Murdoch, Kushner was told, may be serving Chinese interests. The Wall Street Journal, which broke the story, reported that Deng Murdoch, a successful Chinese businesswoman and ex-wife of media mogul…
(JTA) — The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology became the first Israeli university to open a campus in China. On Monday, the Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology opened in Shantou, in the Guangdong province on the southeast coast. The university is a partnership between the Haifa-based university, the Li Ka Shing Foundation, and the Guangdong provincial…
Six-year-old Arabella Kushner is big in China—and her grandfather, President Trump, is showing her off in diplomatic meetings. Last year, shortly after Trump’s inauguration, Ivanka Trump posted a video of her daughter singing a song in Mandarin. The video became an instant hit in China. On Wednesday, President Trump sought to break the ice with…
BEIJING (Reuters) – He may be a divisive figure back home, but President Trump will be landing in friendly territory when he arrives in Beijing on Wednesday, judging by Chinese social media. On platforms such as the Twitter-like Sina Weibo, Trump’s Chinese supporters, who admire his business success and a free-wheeling style unconstrained by political…
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