Diane Feinstein, Who Employed Chinese Spy For 20 Years, Says China Is ‘Growing Into a Respectable Nation’

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on Thursday said China is “growing into a respectable nation amongst other nations” and praised the Chinese Communist Party for pulling “tens of millions of people out of poverty in a short period of time.

Sen. Feinstein, who employed a Chinese spy for 20 years until the FBI intervened in 2013, also cautioned against holding China accountable for the coronavirus pandemic.

We hold China as a potential trading partner, as a country that has pulled tens of millions of people out of poverty in a short period of time, and as a country growing into a respectable nation amongst other nations. I deeply believe that,” Feinstein said during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting.

She said that stripping foreign sovereign immunity from China would be a “huge mistake” and claimed that allowing individuals to hold China accountable for the spread of the virus could allow other countries to do the same to the United States. 

Her firm defense of China comes after a new flood of reports showing human rights abuses perpetrated by the Chinese government.

The Chinese Communist Party has organized the mass detention and forced sterilization of Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority, and drone footage showed blindfolded and shackled Uyghurs being forced onto trains.

Feinstein made the remarks during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting debating a bill that would allow individuals to sue the Chinese government for its release and subsequent cover-up of the novel coronavirus.

Feinstein has also benefited from her husband’s relationship with China. She pushed for expanded trade relations with China as her husband’s company was partnering with business ventures in the country. She said that a “firewall” existed between her political career and her husband’s business interests.

San Francisco Chronicle report:

A staffer in U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s San Francisco office was fired a few years back after being linked to Chinese spying in the Bay Area.

According to a Politico Magazine story on Silicon Valley espionage, the Feinstein staffer was suspected of providing political intelligence — but nothing classified — to his handlers, with one former intelligence official telling author Zach Dorfman that the suspected informant was “run” by officials based at the local Chinese Consulate.

A local source who knew about the incident confirmed to us that the FBI showed up at Feinstein’s office in Washington, D.C., about five years ago to alert the then-chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee that her driver was being investigated for possible Chinese spying.

“Dianne was mortified,” said our source, who spoke to us only on condition he not be named.

Besides driving her around when she was in California, the staffer also served as gofer in her San Francisco office and as a liaison to the Asian American community, even attending Chinese Consulate functions for the senator.

According to our source, the intrigue started years earlier when the staffer took a trip to Asia to visit relatives and was befriended by someone who continued to stay in touch with him on subsequent visits.

Baxter Dmitry

Baxter Dmitry

Baxter Dmitry is a writer at The People's Voice. He covers politics, business and entertainment. Speaking truth to power since he learned to talk, Baxter has travelled in over 80 countries and won arguments in every single one. Live without fear.
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14 Comments

  1. They are the envy of the West and thay are not really a communist economy at all. The West feels threatened by their success ,despite having made hundreds if billions or probably trillions from exploiting cheap Chinese labour to manufacture all of their goods that they sold to the west and asia over the last 50 years And now they want to invade so to steal the factories and enslave the Chinese people because they can give rgem prooaganda about ” freedom ” in return for the fortune they’ve made from them. And then they can make then work harder, better for capitalism to be incentive for hard work and pay more for the houses and rentals and food and hospitals and drs and pharmacists they will supply then By stealing them all from them

  2. she probably only has 5 years to live before old age will take her, but she has decided to take her treason to the grave with her. You think she would see she has stolen enough and just say no to her handleris.

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