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A speech, a Tillerson snub and a palace dinner Ivanka Trumps whirlwind India tour
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A speech, a Tillerson snub and a palace dinner — Ivanka Trump’s whirlwind India tour
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/a-speech-a-tillerson-snub-and-a-palace-dinner--ivanka-trumps-whirlwind-india-tour/2017/11/28/5c22ca60-d3b7-11e7-9ad9-ca0619edfa05_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.de18d612cdd4
Ivanka Trump speaks during the Global Entrepreneurship Summmit in Hyderabad, India, on Nov. 28, 2017. (Money Sharma/AFP/Getty Images)
By Annie Gowen November 28 at 6:48 AM
HYDERABAD, India — Ivanka Trump is only scheduled to be in India for two days, but her short trip — dubbed “a royal visit” by the Indian media — has been already peppered with controversies like studs on one of her made-in-China handbags.
She arrived Tuesday to headline a global entrepreneurship summit in the southern city of Hyderabad, where authorities had swept the streets clean of beggars — and some stray dogs.
She came without senior State Department officials, a departure from years past when high-level U.S. envoys joined the conference. The snub by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was reportedly over his reluctance to bolster her global image with a high-powered team.
She headlined an event focused on uplifting and supporting women entrepreneurs, but there was no mention of her apparel company’s use of low-wage workers in India and other countries to stitch her clothes...............................................
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