America's
New Diplomatic-Trump Empire, Inc. PR Tag Team
This news headline caught my
attention for this post:
My Note: Not are these two novices in such
state-to-state arrangements, but she is the president’s daughter and he is the
president’s son-in-law – both unpaid White House staffers with no diplomatic
experience and also husband and wife – how ironic and bizarre is that?
Meanwhile,
more than a half-year after the start of the Trump administration, the job of Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia remains
vacant.
Noteworthy:
People who have occupied that State East Asia position in the past
have included prominent Americans like Averill Harriman, Dean Rusk, William Bundy, Philip Habib, Richard
Holbrooke, Paul Wolfowitz, Winston Lord, Richard Solomon, Christopher
Hill, and Kurt Campbell (most recently).
But, so far in
that state position under SOS Tillerson and Trump: Nobody.
America’s
allies and friends in Asia, such as Japan and South Korea,
are always nervous about a presidential trip to China. They fear secret
agreements or understandings. They need to be regularly briefed
and reassured that their own interests are being taken into account.
I
conclude with this: I can’t
but help but wonder and ask, will Kushner and Trump-Kushner work the EB-5 visa
program ($500,000 a pop) from investors to America and chance for Green Card
and avenue to citizenship like Kushner’s sister did a short while back for her
brother (Jared)’s monetary building needs?
Various reports about that Kushner family ploy can been seen here (NBC News), here (LA Times), and here (Daily Beast).
This is insane to have one business-linked family like this dealing in
such high-level foreign affairs and the like … I’m a bit out of sorts comprehending this whole Trump whatever we choose to call it — like (my choices are): scam, con, shady deal making.
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