Tag: China

Politics comes at you fast, and it seems to have been speeding up in these past few years. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool)

Beltway Confidential

Obama and Trump take credit in very different ways

Philip Wegmann · November 22, 2017 5:01 pm

LaVar Ball questioned the extent of President Trump's involvement in securing his son's release from the custody of Chinese authorities. Trump hit back saying, "It wasn't the White House, it wasn't the State Department, it wasn't father LaVar's so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence - IT WAS ME." (AP Photos)

Trump hits back at ‘ungrateful fool’ LaVar Ball

Sarah Bedford · November 22, 2017 11:25 am

President Trump reportedly wants to see his daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner return to their home in New York City. The pair have been visible White House figures since the inauguration, but have struggled to find their footing under both media and government scrutiny. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump advocated for Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner’s return to New York: Report

Naomi Lim · November 22, 2017 3:46 am

Ultimately, when someone frees your flesh and blood, unconditional gratitude is owed. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Beltway Confidential

LaVar Ball is free to be ungrateful to Trump this Thanksgiving — in China, he might not be

Sean Roman Strockyj · November 21, 2017 10:15 pm

State-owned airline Air China suspended flights Tuesday between Beijing and North Korea due to a lack of demand, deepening the North's isolation amid mounting U.N. sanctions over its nuclear and missile programs.(AP Photo/ Greg Baker, File)

National Security

Air China suspends North Korea flights, deepening isolation

Associated Press · November 21, 2017 12:08 pm

Trump Is Right: Five Ways Chinese Car Makers Are Hosing America

Irwin M. Stelzer · November 21, 2017 10:05 am

LaVar Ball, the father of one of the three UCLA basketball players caught shoplifting in China, told CNN's Chris Cuomo Monday night that he would have thanked President Trump personally if he had also flown his son home, instead of just freeing them from a Chinese jail. (screenshot)

LaVar Ball: I would have thanked Trump if he brought my son home from China on Air Force One

Naomi Lim · November 21, 2017 4:05 am

In this Aug. 10, 2017, file photo, a man watches a television screen showing President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program at a train station in Seoul, South Korea. Trump's recent trip to Asia and his designation of North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism, unfortunately, reveal either an inability or disinclination to conduct foreign policy in this manner. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s declaration of North Korea as a state sponsor of terror is just another in a long line of policy flip-flops

Erik Goepner, A. Trevor Thrall · November 20, 2017 8:09 pm

"This tweet perfectly summarizes @potus' unfitness for the job. He does not see himself as representing the citizens of the United States (that's the job desc) but himself as a kind of petulant emperor who needs to be fawned over to do his job. Unpresidential in the extreme," former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel tweeted Sunday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Former Obama official: Trump sees himself as a ‘petulant emperor’

Caitlin Yilek · November 20, 2017 3:12 pm

White House Watch: Trump Twitter Can Still Shock You

Michael Warren · November 20, 2017 11:50 am

FILE - In this July 7, 2017, file photo, LaVar Ball, father of Los Angeles Lakers' Lonzo Ball and UCLA player LiAngelo Ball, watches the Lakers play the Los Angeles Clippers during an NBA summer league basketball game, in Las Vegas. President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday, Nov. 19, that he should have left three UCLA basketball players, including LiAngelo Ball, accused of shoplifting in China in jail after LaVar Ball minimized Trump's involvement in winning the players' release during an interview Saturday, Nov. 18, with ESPN. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Trump to ‘ungrateful’ father of UCLA basketball player: ‘China told them why they were released’

Naomi Lim · November 20, 2017 12:22 am

"Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal. I should have left them in jail!" Trump tweeted. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Trump on UCLA basketball players: ‘I should have left them in jail’ due to LaVar Ball criticism

Kelly Cohen · November 19, 2017 5:58 pm