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Article: Campaign 2000.(Senator Dianne Feinstein)
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- National Review
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- April 19, 1999
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Princess Di-Fi
A senator's prospects.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein goes way back with Chinese president Jiang Zemin. They first met in 1985 as the mayors of San Francisco and Shanghai, which are sister cities. They have since visited each other repeatedly, once even hitting the dance floor together.
Today Feinstein is one of China's leading allies in Washington. When the issue is trade, Feinstein will push hard for no limits. When it's human rights, she will equivocate to the point of comparing China's massacre of hundreds in Tiananmen Square to the four shooting deaths at Kent State, as she did in 1997. "More people vote in China today than do in the ...