{"id":9223,"date":"2017-03-08T13:43:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T13:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/trump-trademarks-approved-by-china\/"},"modified":"2017-03-08T13:43:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T13:43:50","slug":"trump-trademarks-approved-by-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/trump-trademarks-approved-by-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump trademarks approved by China"},"content":{"rendered":"
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China has given US President Donald Trump the chance to expand his brand, after approving dozens of applications to register the Trump trademark.<\/p>\n

Many of the requests, for industries from hotels to security, were made during the US election campaign. <\/p>\n

President Trump, who already owns about 70 trademarks in China, has pledged not to strike new foreign business deals while in office. <\/p>\n

Critics have warned the approvals could breach the US Constitution.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press reported that 38 trademark requests had been provisionally given the go ahead.<\/p>\n

The approvals still need to be rubber-stamped. If no one objects to them, they will be formally registered in 90 days.<\/p>\n

In China it is not uncommon for celebrities or businesses to trademark their name, even if they have no immediate intention of using it, to protect it being used by others.<\/p>\n

Shortly before his inauguration, Mr Trump signed over his business interests to his sons - though critics said this did not go far enough. <\/p>\n

When news of the trademark applications emerged earlier this year, experts from across the US political spectrum said granting them could be considered an "emolument" - the term for a fee, salary or profit provided by a foreign government.<\/p>\n

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Image caption Donald Trump has business interests around the world, including this Trump-branded (but not owned) project in Mumbai. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These are outlawed by the Constitution.<\/p>\n

Barack Obama's former ethics lawyer Norman Eisen said there was a risk of a conflict of interest.<\/p>\n

"The concern of the constitution is that flows of benefit to presidents from foreign sovereigns will distort their judgment, and trademarks are certainly capable of that," he said in January.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Richard Painter, a former chief ethics lawyer to President George W. Bush, said the volume of new approvals raised questions about whether Beijing was being favourable to the US President. <\/p>\n

"A routine trademark, patent or copyright from a foreign government is likely not an unconstitutional emolument, but with so many trademarks being granted over such a short time period, the question arises as to whether there is an accommodation in at least some of them," he said.<\/p>\n

Recently former US basketball star Michael Jordan won a trademark dispute over the use of his name in China. <\/p>\n

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