Subject: Feinstein performs kowtow

NewsMax.com Thursday, April 5, 2001 6:06 p.m. EDT Sen. DiFi Apologizes to ChiComs for Pilot's Death Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein has delivered a melodramatic personal apology to Communist China for the loss of a pilot who plunged into the South China Sea Sunday after crashing his F-8 fighter into an unarmed U.S. reconnaissance aircraft. "I want the Chinese to know that I, as a senior senator from California, am truly sorry about the loss of a Chinese pilot," Feinstein told reporters Thursday. "He was married. He has a child. A life is a life. And we're sorry." Feinstein's apology to the Communist Chinese was first reported by talk radio's Rush Limbaugh, who noted that she has good reason to want to stay on Beijing's good side: Her husband Richard Blum has extensive business interests in the country. In a March 28, 1997, article on the couple, the Los Angeles Times reported: "In the last year, a Blum investment firm paid $23 million for a stake in a Chinese government-owned steel enterprise and acquired sizable interests in the leading producers of soybean milk and candy in China. "Blum's firm, Newbridge Capital Ltd., received an important boost from a $10 million investment by the International Finance Corp., an arm of the World Bank. Experts said that IFC backing typically confers legitimacy and can help attract other investors. "'It seems to be going quite well,' Rashad Kaldany - who in 1994 managed the IFC's capital markets investments in Asia - said of the project. He added: 'There also was some comfort in that Mr. Blum had some contacts with the Chinese.'" The California power couple told the Times that they maintain a "firewall" of separation between her political career and his Chinese business ties. Feinstein made no mention Thursday of her husband's investments - or the firewall that insulates them from her political decisions - while apologizing to Beijing. Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics: China/Taiwan

-- RC (-@reluctant.californian), April 07, 2001

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This woman needs to be tried for treason side by side with Slick and Algore.

-- Ain't Gonna Happen (Not Here Not@ever.com), April 07, 2001.