Dianne Feinstein was born as Dianne Emiel Goldman on June 22, 1933 in San Francisco. While attending Stanford University in early 1955, she supported a movement to bring Soviet student-newspaper editors to the U.S. for “guided tours.” Moreover, she hosted Soviet journalists who visited the Stanford campus on an exchange program. In 1985, then Mayor Feinstein issued a proclamation in support of that year’s World Festival of Youth and Students, a Moscow event that was organized by the Soviet front group World Federation of Democratic Youth, and was supported as well by the Communist Party USA. That December, Feinstein traveled to Moscow to attend a trade council meeting that called for the removal of restrictions on trade between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

During the 1980s, Mayor Feinstein cultivated a close friendship with Shanghai Mayor Jiang Zemin — a relationship that greatly helped the Communist Party of China establish a relationship with the U.S. government. For instance, Feinstein and Jiang visited one another multiple times throughout the ’80s, with Jiang once spending Thanksgiving in San Francisco with the mayor and her husband. Jiang’s ties to Feinstein became particularly significant when the former became General Secretary of the Communist Party of China in 1989, and President of the People’s Republic of China in 1993.

Sen. Feinstein is well known as an ardent fan of the reds in Beijing. She has opposed a U.S. anti-missile defense, supported China’s MFN status, supported the COSCO purchase of Long Beach port and is a well-known opponent of linking human rights with trade. However, Feinstein’s financial ties to the communist Chinese and COSCO include her husband, Richard Blum.

Blum is reported to be heavily tied to the PRC through his Far East investment firm, Newbridge Capitol Corp. Blum’s partner at Newbridge, Peter Kwok, also served as a consultant to COSCO, and COSCO Hong Kong Holdings, a company owned by Chinese billionaire Li Ka-Shing. In 1989, Kwok helped CITIC and Li Ka-Shing raise $120 million to buy a Hughes-built communications satellite for a company also part owned by Chinese generals.

In May 2000, Feinstein lobbied in favor of the permanent normalization of U.S. trade relations with China. The subsequent passage of that measure made it possible for China to join the World Trade Organization, a move that Feinstein likewise supported. A spokesperson for Feinstein asserted that the senator’s husband, Blum, had fully divested his holdings in mainland China by 1999, but Blum in fact still owned a stake in a Newbridge Capital Asia fund that contained investments in China.

In August 2018, media reports revealed that from about 1993 to 2013, a Feinstein staffer named Russell Lowe had secretly worked not only for the senator but also as a spy for Communist China. According to Politico magazine, Lowe, who served Feinstein as an “office director” and “a liaison to the local Chinese community,” was secretly “reporting back” information to Chinese intelligence services during that period. In response to this revelation, Feinstein tweeted on August 4, 2018: “The FBI told me 5 years ago it had concerns that China was seeking to recruit an administrative member of my Calif staff (despite no access to sensitive information). I took those concerns seriously, learned the facts and made sure the employee left my office immediately.” Notably, the senator said nothing about the fact that her office had employed Lowe for almost 20 years and had authorized him to represent Feinstein in interactions with Chinese government officials.

Senator Feinstein is far closer to Red China than just a few business ties to her husband would suggest. The Los Angeles Times reported in 1997 that Blum and Feinstein have visited with communist Chinese officials three times. Blum reportedly accompanied the senator at his own expense and met with President Jiang Zemin and other top communist party officials. In January 1996, Feinstein and Blum were honored as the first foreigners to stay at Mao Tse-tung’s former residence.

In explaining her interest in U.S.-China relations, Feinstein has jokingly said, "In my last life I was Chinese."

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