China Invites Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner to Visit Beijing

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...

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...

The Princeling in the West Wing

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.

Conversation
04.14.17

Ivanka: A ChinaFile Conversation

Rebecca E. Karl, Yishu Mao & more

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...

China and the Legend of Ivanka

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.