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06.12.18Ivanka Trump Quotes ‘Chinese Proverb,’ but China Is Baffled
New York Times
It was supposed to be a triumphant tweet.
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05.29.18Ivanka Trump Wins China Trademarks, Then Her Father Vows to Save ZTE
New York Times
China awarded Ivanka Trump seven new trademarks in businesses including books and housewares.
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11.08.17Trump’s Granddaughter Plays Diplomat Once More as She Sings for ‘Grandpa’ Xi Jinping
South China Morning Post
She might be only five years old, but Arabella Kushner played her diplomatic role perfectly again on Wednesday as she helped ease the interaction between two of the world’s most powerful men – Chinese President Xi Jinping and her grandfather, Donald.
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10.26.17Kushner Will Take a Diminished Role on Trump’s China Trip
Politico
Back in December 2016, the Chinese foreign minister traveled to Manhattan to meet privately with Jared Kushner for emergency discussions after President-elect Donald Trump’s unorthodox phone call with the president of Taiwan.
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10.04.17Ivanka Trump’s Business in China Shrouded in Secrecy as Public Trade Data Disappears
Independent
It is no secret that the bulk of Ivanka Trump's merchandise comes from China. But just which Chinese companies manufacture and export her handbags, shoes and clothes is more secret than ever, an Associated Press investigation has found.
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07.19.17Chinese Labor Activist Targeted over ‘Ivanka Trump Supplier Probe’
South China Morning Post
Hua Haifeng believes police arrested him and took a special interest in his work after he began investigating factories supplying Trump’s clothing brand
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06.20.17China Invites Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner to Visit Beijing
Bloomberg
China has invited President Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law to visit later this year, according to people familiar with the matter, in the latest sign of the first family’s growing influence over foreign affairs. Details of the possible trip...
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06.06.17U.S. Presses China to Free Activists Scrutinizing Ivanka Trump Shoe Factory
New York Times
Experts warned that the detentions could make it more difficult for other Western companies to take a clear look at the practices of their Chinese suppliers.
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06.05.17Ivanka Trump’s Firm Seeks New Trademarks in China, Reviving Ethical Concerns
CNN
A trove of Chinese trademark applications filed by Ivanka Trump’s namesake business is focusing attention once again on the ethical complications presented by the Trump family’s business ties.
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05.31.17Activists Investigating Ivanka Trump’s China Shoe Factory Detained or Missing
Guardian
A labor activist working undercover investigating abuses at a Chinese factory that makes Ivanka Trump shoes has been detained by police and two others are missing, raising concerns the company’s ties to the U.S. president’s family may have led to...
Environment
05.23.17
India and China Will Offset Trump’s Climate Backslide
from chinadialogue
With the U.S. likely to fall short of its Paris Agreement pledge to reduce carbon emissions, a new analysis released last week claims that overachievement by India and China will ensure progress on climate action is not stymied.The U.S., the world’s...
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05.10.17The Princeling in the West Wing
New York Times
Over the weekend, there was the unseemly spectacle of Jared Kushner’s sister, Nicole Meyer, hawking golden visas to connected Chinese investors if they would put $500,000 into one of the Kushners’ real estate projects in Jersey City.
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04.19.17China Says Ivanka Trump Trademark Requests Handled Properly
Chicago Tribune
China is defending its handling of trademark applications from President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her company, saying that all such requests are handled fairly.
Conversation
04.14.17
Ivanka: A ChinaFile Conversation
At a time of strained and erratic relations between the U.S. and China, Ivanka Trump, the President’s daughter and, more recently, a member of his administration, has emerged as an unlikely but singularly potent emissary, not to just to China’s...
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04.13.17The Classic Chinese Text That Ivanka Trump’s Kids Recited for Xi Jinping Was Long Banned in China
Quartz
For decades, Sanzijing had been banned from all public kindergartens and schools in China as the Communist regime cracked down on non-socialist ideas.
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04.12.17China and the Legend of Ivanka
New Yorker
That such a vexed figure may serve as the role model for Chinese women who are just beginning to grapple with their identity in a society that has historically been hostile to their empowerment seems like a regression.