All that Olympic Torch Brouhaha Pays Off, Newsom Launches ChinaSF

Team Newsom recently kicked off a nightclub-sounding economic development initiative called ChinaSF. The "public/private" partnership will help connect businesses in China to San Francisco and the Bay Area, helping cash-rich Chinese companies looking to invest or set up shop in North America. So far, SF has scored sweet deals with Trina Solar, a global solar-power company of note, and China Daily, a state-run English-only paper in China. Looks like that Olympic torch mess and human rights violation cheek-tuning San Francisco saw earlier this year was all worth it, right?