The Chinese are about to take Jarvanka to the cleaners

[Tanuki]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-chinese-are-about-to-take-jared-kushner-and-ivanka-trump-to-the-cleaners?source=facebook&via=mobile

"For a good example of how our system of government is in danger of devolving into a quasi-monarchy, consider this: Jared Kushner andIvanka Trump, President Trump’s son-in-law and daughter, will be visiting China this fall to lay the groundwork for a subsequent visit by the president himself, who tweeted recently that he has become “very disappointed in China.”

Meanwhile, more than a half-year after the start of the Trump administration, the job of assistant secretary of state for East Asia still lies vacant.

Novices like Kushner and Ivanka Trump typically fall into traps when they try to deal with China. You might call this a form of guidance for them. Alternatively, you might instead call this essay a description of how Beijing will handle them and why their involvement is more likely to set back, rather than help, America’s interests.
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In past administrations, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia was often the person responsible for keeping our allies in the loop on our China policy. If no one holds that job, and if Jared is the official responsible for Trump’s visit to China, the likelihood is that the Japanese will ask for regular meetings with Kushner—and they can wait outside his West Wing office in a line that may also include Israelis, Palestinians, Mexicans, tech entrepreneurs, and all the other accounts he holds.

The people who have occupied that East Asia position at the State Department include prominent figures who, for better or worse, left their mark on American foreign policy, from Averill Harriman, Dean Rusk, William Bundy, and Philip Habib in the early years to Richard Holbrooke, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Solomon, Winston Lord, Christopher Hill, and Kurt Campbell more recently. Under Trump, so far: Nobody.
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2) You are the wise and far-sighted ones. This line is not as well-known as the “old friend” routine, but it is just as common. Jared and Ivanka, if China tells you that you are wise and far-sighted, please know that you are joining many scores of senior American officials who’ve been told the same thing. The implicit message here is that other U.S. officials—say, back in the Pentagon or in the State Department’s human-rights office or the U.S. trade representative’s office who are seeking to take action against China in one way or another—are merely short-sighted pygmies, compared to your supposed wisdom in deciding to overrule them.
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I have not yet included here the final, huge source of concern in this situation: Jared and Ivanka and their families have their own huge business interests, including in China, and at least some people in Beijing may try to co-opt or reward them by helping those private interests.​ By way of historical perspective, it was considered a serious potential conflict-of-interest in the 1980s when Prescott Bush, President George H.W. Bush’s brother, started to do business in China. But Prescott Bush was operating on his own, not on behalf of the White House or the American people, and his business interests were extremely small in comparison with those of the Trumps and the Kushners."....

[Beakybird]

1. We know what will happen

They will set back American interests for personal profits.

[Takket]

2. this is why mueller has to wrap this up with all due haste.............

needs to be done right but the the longer this goes on, the more irreparable damage is done. foreign powers have figured out that they can manipulate our leaders by stroking their egos. that's why no matter how 45 blusters you don't see 45 being denounced by other countries' governments. they are watching putin milking that cow and are ready for their turn. kushner is going to go in there and be exactly what he is: a dimwited inexperienced pathetic businessman....... and china might buy the actual brooklyn bridge from him for a pack of bubble gum