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WP: China awards Trump valuable new trademark
In exchange for agreeing to honor the one China Policy, perhaps?
Can you spell emoluments clause? Apparently the Republicans in Congress can't.
What a travesty our government has become. We are now officially a banana Republic!
SHANGHAI — The government of China awarded U.S. President Donald Trump valuable rights to his own name this week, in the form of a 10-year trademark for construction services.
The registration became official on Feb. 14 and was published in a trademark registration announcement on the website of China’s Trademark Office on Wednesday.
This may well be the first foreign trademark to be handed to Trump during his presidency, but is unlikely to be the last. In China alone he has 49 pending trademark applications and 77 marks already registered in his own name, most of which will come up for renewal during his term.
Critics say Trump’s global intellectual property interests could be used by foreign states as leverage over the president and may violate the emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution, which bars public servants from accepting anything of value from foreign governments unless explicitly approved by Congress. These concerns are particularly sharp in China, where the courts and bureaucracy reflect the will of the ruling Communist Party.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/china-awards-trump-valuable-new-trademark/2017/02/15/ce80ba2e-f373-11e6-9fb1-2d8f3fc9c0ed_story.html?utm_term=.5a5452153864
The registration became official on Feb. 14 and was published in a trademark registration announcement on the website of China’s Trademark Office on Wednesday.
This may well be the first foreign trademark to be handed to Trump during his presidency, but is unlikely to be the last. In China alone he has 49 pending trademark applications and 77 marks already registered in his own name, most of which will come up for renewal during his term.
Critics say Trump’s global intellectual property interests could be used by foreign states as leverage over the president and may violate the emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution, which bars public servants from accepting anything of value from foreign governments unless explicitly approved by Congress. These concerns are particularly sharp in China, where the courts and bureaucracy reflect the will of the ruling Communist Party.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/china-awards-trump-valuable-new-trademark/2017/02/15/ce80ba2e-f373-11e6-9fb1-2d8f3fc9c0ed_story.html?utm_term=.5a5452153864