Ivanka Trump’s business has won approval from the Chinese government for at least five new trademarks. The approval came just days before President Donald Trump announced he was working on a controversial deal to drop U.S. prohibitions against China cellphone manufacturer ZTE.
Another trademark was given trial approval. The trademarks grant Ivanka Trump operations exclusive rights to market a variety of products in China that could potentially amount to millions of dollars in profits. Ivanka Trump Marks LLC received approval last year for several other trademarks after she began working in the White House. Three of them were granted the same day she dined with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago.
The applications for the trademarks were submitted over a year ago, and the trademark registrations were accepted May 7. Just five days later Trump announced he was working on a deal to lift U.S. business barriers against ZTE in order to save Chinese jobs.
Mike_Kermin on May 27th, 2018 at 06:05 UTC »
This is called corruption.
TooShiftyForYou on May 27th, 2018 at 05:24 UTC »
Meanwhile, some 72 hours before Trumps tweet about ZTE, China quietly agreed to loan $500 million to an Indonesian theme park project in which the president is a partner.
Interesting how immediately after this the man who ran a campaign on the platform of taking jobs back from China suddenly cared about the Chinese getting more jobs.
Dreacle on May 27th, 2018 at 05:10 UTC »
This is what corruption at the highest levels looks like.
Just astounding how blatant it is.