Meanwhile, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have been invited to China<\/strong><\/a> as Beijing seeks to build closer ties with the White House. From Benjamin Haas at The Guardian:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Chinese officials have been scrambling to build closer ties with key members of the US administration after Donald Trump\u2019s election victory surprised many in the leadership. The couple\u2019s visit is unlikely to take place before October, as senior officials prepare for a twice a decade leadership reshuffle at a key Communist party meeting.<\/p>\n Ivanka Trump is broadly popular in China where state media often lavishes her and her Mandarin-learning daughter with praise.<\/p>\n Earlier this year a video of the two visiting the Chinese embassy in Washington for lunar new year went viral. Ivanka Trump frequently posts clips of her daughter singing in Chinese. The Global Times, a state-run tabloid, has described her as \u201cbalancing [Donald] Trump\u2019s harsh posture\u201d.<\/p>\n But the couple have been criticised for their business ties to China, shining a spotlight on potential conflicts as the two prepare to engage diplomatically with the country. [Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three China Labor Watch activists who were detained while\u00a0working undercover investigating abuses at two\u00a0Huajian Group\u00a0factories, which made shoes for Ivanka Trump’s brand, have been released on bail on Wednesday with a trial pending. Gerry Shih and Bernard Condon at AP report: After a month behind bars, three Chinese investigators who went undercover at a factory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1088,"featured_media":201342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,34,10,14744,14745,14746,38,1051],"tags":[2255,8247,2047,1595,17425,1424,148,626],"class_list":["post-201341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-human-rights","category-law","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-the-great-divide","category-top-article","tag-activists","tag-detention","tag-donald-trump","tag-factories","tag-ivanka-trump","tag-labor-conditions","tag-labor-rights","tag-manufacturing","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n