Sen. Dianne Feinstein says that allowing Americans to sue China over coronavirus a ‘huge mistake’

Sen. Dianne Feinstein says that allowing Americans to sue China over coronavirus a ‘huge mistake’

Allowing American citizens to sue China for damages caused by the Wuhan coronavirus would backfire and would be a ‘huge mistake,’ says California senior senator Dianne Feinstein.

Feinstein, whose remarks came during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, said, “We launch a series of unknown events that could be very, very dangerous. I think this is a huge mistake.”

“Where I live… we hold China as a potential trading partner,” she said earlier. “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 among other nations. And I deeply believe that. I’ve been to China a number of times. I’ve studied the issues.”

Feinstein claimed other countries, including China, may decide to use the new legal precedent against the U.S., setting off a chain reaction, resulting in global chaos.

She went on to explain that China was developing into a ‘respectable nation‘.

“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.

It should be noted that Feinstein has some strong connections to China.

As detailed in an earlier Federalist exposé spurred by revelations that Feinstein had employed a staffer for nearly two decades who was spying for the Chinese government, arguably no politician in American history has maintained a deeper, more longstanding, and friendlier relationship at the highest levels of the CCP than Feinstein. This dates back to at least the normalization of U.S.-China relations in 1979, when shortly thereafter, as mayor of San Francisco, Feinstein established a “sister city” relationship with Shanghai and Mayor Jiang Zemin.

In the ensuing decades, Feinstein helped dramatically increase commercial ties with China, allowing her husband, investor Richard Blum, to substantially grow his China-related investment profits. In the 1980s, Feinstein and Zemin, the future CCP general secretary and president, worked together to establish corporate partnerships for the express purpose of investing in China.

Blum directed one such partnership, in which he maintained a relatively small financial interest. But while Blum’s investment may have been small, Chinese officials reportedly viewed the partnership most favorably.

In the 1990s as a U.S. senator, Feinstein advocated for increasing trade with China, while de-linking its most-favored-nation (MFN) trading status from concerns over rampant human rights violations, and making it permanent.

Surely, if China were as ‘respectable’ as Feinstein believes, then its San Francisco and New York City consulates would probably not be under scrutiny for being “hubs of spying”.

The Chinese Communist Party operates two major hotspots for espionage, their consulates in San Francisco and New York City.

“San Francisco is the real gem but the US won’t close it,” a former US intelligence official told Axios this week.

The likelihood of either of those two consulates being closed is less so than that of Houston, which the Trump administration appears to be making an example out of.

China has long been accused of using its embassy and consulates for questionable purposes, such as collecting information on Uighurs and Chinese dissident groups and exerting control over Chinese students.

Furthermore, its citizens wouldn’t be scamming ours via hacking and subversive use of websites like Amazon. There are disturbing reports of unsolicited seed packages being sent from China to homes across America, which has led agriculture departments in at least 31 states to issue warnings against planting them and that could be tied to a fake product review scam.

Officials in several states said there didn’t appear to be a clear pattern to the packages, which have been showing up at homes in the city, suburbs, and in rural areas. The number of packages being reported also varied. In Indiana, for instance, an official with the state attorney general’s office said it had received only a handful of reports, while in Ohio, officials have received roughly 150 calls about the packages over the past month.

“We have done some researching and it does appear that these seeds are tied with an online scam called ‘brushing’,” the Whitehouse Police Department in Ohio – one of the states where the packages reportedly have been sent – posted on Facebook. “A brushing scam is an exploit by a vendor used to bolster product ratings and increase visibility online by shipping an inexpensive product to an unwitting receiver and then submitting positive reviews on the receiver’s behalf under the guise of a verified owner.

Perhaps Feinstein should review the definition of the term, “respectable”?

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