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The Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office has enlisted Checkmate Government Relations for strategic counsel.
Based in Winston-Salem, Checkmate has strong ties to the Trump administration. Checkmate chief Ches McDowell headed up the North Carolina branch of Sportsmen for Trump and has gone bear hunting with Donald Trump, Jr.
His firm receives a $50K monthy retainer under its six-month contract with TECRO. It reports to Andrea Yi-Shan Yang, TECRO’s deputy rep in DC.
As president Trump prepares to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping, a group of US Senators has urged him to move ahead on a long-delayed $14B weapons deal for Taiwan.
The arms package, which is stalled in the State Dept., requires Trump to formally submit it to Congress for a vote.
Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah called the weapons package a response to fill the "credibility gaps that Taiwan needs to deter and, if necessary to defeat China."
Kuwait has hired Mercury Public Affairs to handle strategic communications in connection with the Oct. 24 dedication of the Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm Memorial in Washington.
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky has sanctioned his former press secretary Iuliia Mendel for allegedly promoting Russian propaganda.
Gabriel Attal, who heads France’s Renaissance Partie, is relying on Gabriel Laurent Eshaghian, a Woodland Hills, CA-based real estate, aviation and investment executive, to boost his profile in the US ahead of France’s April 2027 elections.
TSG Advocates has inked a $240K one-year pact to provide PA and government relations services to the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency.
KARV is providing strategic communications to the American-Uzbek Business and Investment Council to promote US economic ties with the central Asian country.
