China Invites Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner to Visit Beijing

[DonViejo]

Source: Bloomberg



June 20, 2017, 9:07 AM EDT

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 by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, both of whom have official jobs in the White House, were still under discussion, according to a U.S. official and a Chinese official who asked not to be identified. The visit may also help prepare for a trip by the president himself, said the Chinese official, who asked not be identified disclosing plans that haven’t been announced.

Kushner and Ivanka Trump hosted the U.S.’s newly sworn-in ambassador to China, Terry Branstad, for an introductory dinner Sunday at the Trump Hotel in Washington, according to the U.S. official, who asked not to be identified confirming a meeting that hasn’t been made public. The former Iowa governor, who has known Chinese President Xi Jinping since the 1980s, is expected to depart Friday and arrive in China next week after meetings in Honolulu.

The discussions highlight Trump’s reliance on the couple to manage some of the U.S.’s thorniest issues. Neither Ivanka Trump, 35, who has been an executive in her father’s company and started her own fashion line, or Kushner, a 36-year-old property tycoon, has any prior government experience. Kushner will to travel to the Middle East this week to push for a Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. He also visited Iraq in April.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-06-20/china-said-to-invite-ivanka-jared-kushner-to-visit-beijing

[global1]

1. Has The Whole World Gone Mad?.....nt

[Turbineguy]

2. I hear they have

nice tours to North Korea from there.

[Kleveland]

3. Oh, that is just peachy!

Yes, the world has gone mad.

Is anybody asking just what China's end game here might be?

Why don't we just split the country down the Mississippi, and give the East to Russia, and the West to China, and be done with it?

We as a people of this country do not seem to have any say anyway as far as what Congress, or our president (soon to be CEO of the U$) will do next, so what the hell.... give it away, and bow down to our new masters!

[Scarsdale]

5. Jared or Ivanka

aim to be the next president. The "job" is so great for their brand, doncha know? The Chinese are placing their bets on the next presidency, so of course they will butter up these two. What will happen if they are both in prison before then? Before they plan this trip, be sure we have an extradition pact with the Chinese, in case they try to abscond!!

[ananda]

4. I wish they'd stay there and ..

.. convince daddy dearest to join them.

[dhill926]

6. a confederacy of dunces...

running our foreign affairs....great....

[lark]

7. Nothing to see here, move along now.

No bribes are being made to the presidents' favorite, none at all. Nothing is being given by the US for whatever goodies China wants to "gift" to Ivanka. The lessening of the rhetoric about currency manipulation is just coincidence and has nothing to do with China granting Ivanka 100 new trademarks.