- The Independent comments: "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. In the months since she took her White House role, public information about the companies importing Ivanka Trump goods to the US has become harder to find. Information that once routinely appeared in private trade tracking data has vanished, leaving the identities of companies involved in 90 per cent of shipments unknown... Trump's brand, which is still owned by the first daughter and presidential advisor, declined to disclose the information. The deepening secrecy means it's unclear who Ivanka Trump's company is doing business with in China, even as she and her husband, Jared Kushner, have emerged as important conduits for top Chinese officials in Washington. The lack of disclosure makes it difficult to understand whether foreign governments could use business ties with her brand to try to influence the White House — and whether her company stands to profit from foreign government subsidies that can destroy American jobs. Such questions are especially pronounced in China, where state-owned and state-subsidised companies dominate large swaths of commercial activity."
The Council on Foreign Relations comments: "When United States President Donald J. Trump makes his first visit to China next month, you can bet that human rights will not be at the top of the agenda—or on the agenda at all... In preparation for this month's 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese government recently published a book titled 'China's New Achievements in Human Rights (2012-2017)'... Unsurprisingly perhaps, the book neglects to mention a few of President Xi's 'brilliant achievements' in human rights. This summer alone has witnessed some of Xi's finest work: in July, China's most famous human rights and pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo died from untreated liver cancer under guard at a state hospital... Several other prominent rights activists and lawyers were 'disappeared,' or put on trial on national television to 'voluntarily' confess to their crimes. Three student democracy leaders were sentenced to prison in Hong Kong... In western China's Xinjiang autonomous region, authorities have continued their sustained crackdown on the Muslim Uighur minority, forcing them to install surveillance apps on their mobile phones, banning their native language in local schools, jailing prominent Uighur scholars... Grassroots groups, including feminists and Christians, have faced intensifying crackdowns, and recent laws on foreign NGOs have further stifled civil society participation... Rather than stepping up, the United States is mired in its own controversies, and has not demonstrated any real ability or desire to advocate for international human rights... As the U.S.-led world order continues to deteriorate under the apathy of the Trump administration, China can and will seek to play a more prominent role on the global stage. If China insists on behaving like a bully at home, and cannot guarantee its own citizens basic rights and freedoms, how can we expect it to behave any differently as a world power?"
- The Wall Street Journal reports: "Three days after Chinese regulators outlawed cryptocurrency fundraising in early September, a woman met with half a dozen individuals at a Beijing golf club to pitch a digital-currency investment opportunity. Over an hour and a half, the woman, who introduced herself as Ms. Zhang, said she represented a logistics company that was selling a new investment, one that could help buyers get up to a 40-fold return on their money in two to three years... 'We are basically a financing project,' Ms. Zhang told attendees. 'It's called virtual currency.' She told attendees not to publicize the investment opportunity, saying their gains could be affected if other investors rushed in... As China widens a crackdown on exchanges and attempts to limit private trading venues for digital currencies, clandestine sales pitches seeking as much as $100,000 per investor are taking place away out of regulators' sight, according to investors and traders. Some of the activity that used to take place on widely accessible online platforms is shifting to low-profile offices and online messaging services, as digital-currency promoters and investors try to get around the new curbs."
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- 2017-10-02 Trump needs China on North Korea but he's doing it wrong: Baucus & Hass
- 2017-09-29 White House conducting wide-ranging review of China policy
- 2017-09-28 China orders North Korean business closed under UN sanctions
- 2017-09-27 Top US Diplomat Tillerson to Travel to China This Week
- 2017-09-26 If This Is a Trade War, China’s Winning
- 2017-09-25 U.S. hopes for 'good deliverables' during Trump's China visit
- 2017-09-24 The nuclear threat can be contained by diplomacy
- 2017-09-20 China finds Trump threats to North Korea unhelpful
- 2017-09-19 Why China's Xi Jinping is missing from the U.N. General Assembly
- Independent Ivanka Trump's business in China shrouded in secrecy as public trade data disappears
- The Wall Street Journal In China, Cryptocurrency Sales Persist in the Shadows
- CNBC World Bank raises 2017, 2018 East Asia growth forecasts, sees geopolitical risks
- Quartz China's putting the brakes on coal for heating millions of homes this winter
- The Wall Street Journal Chinese Fugitive Guo Wengui Amasses War Chest to Battle Beijing
- Financial Times Bond investors start to ask questions about Chinese takeovers
- Reuters China's U.S. soybean imports face delays as hurricanes hit crop quality
- The Wall Street Journal How China's Capital Clampdown Torpedoed a Billionaire's Oscar Dream
- Reuters In China, performance art feels the chill from official disapproval
- Bloomberg China Bank Stocks Turn Into Latest Best Hope for Investors
- Financial Times China reads the runes of Pirelli share sale
- Reuters Bain files for China antitrust approval on $18 billion Toshiba chips deal: source
- Los Angeles Times Chinese theaters are shortchanging U.S. film studios, MPAA audit finds
- Council on Foreign Relations The Trump Administration Doesn't Care About Human Rights in China—Here's Why They Should
- Forbes How China Is Catching Up To A U.S. Science & Tech Sector Uncertain Of Its Future
- The New York Times 1949: The Year That Set the Course of Chinese-American Relations
- Slate Asia's Other Nightmare Scenario
- China File North Korea's Diplomats in Africa Are Making Big Money Selling Ivory to Chinese Consumers
- Forbes What We Know About China's 19th Party Congress And The Possible Economic Fallout
- War On The Rocks Did China Use Water As A Weapon In The Doklam Standoff?