Posted on 04/01/2014 11:34:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There is some difference, at least here in Australia, the land the Chinese are buying are farms not rental properties. And when I say farms I mean massive cattle and sheep stations.
I don;t have a problem, I just meant to point out it is different. The Japanese invested, then largely withdrew when their economy tanked. The Chinese are invested long term.
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It would be interesting to know how many “farms” the Chinese own throughout the world. Actually, to know what countries have ownership of farms across the world would be of interest.... perhaps unsettling though.
“Weren’t the Japanese doing the same thing 30 years ago?”
I expressed concern over this to my politically connected uncle. He laughed and said, “They’re not citizens, they don’t vote, they won’t have an organized lobby, the tax increases are going to kill them. They’ll be gone in a decade.”
This yet another reprise of the “Japan will own everything” scare and “the Arabs will own everything” scare before that. They can’t put what they buy on a plane and send it home.
For an interesting take review what happened when the Japanese bought Rockefeller Center. Short spoiler...... they got their hair taken
One day soon we will wake up and there will be an announcement from the White House that we have a choice to make,face nuclear annihilation,or allow the Chinese to take control of our Government.
The only question asked by the American people will be, do we get to keep our Social Security, free phones and food stamps?
Exactly!
The Chinese have excess cash and need to invest.
Our assets are cheap, with a decent upside potential, so the Chinese will invest here.
Putting subsidiaries and manufacturing here is all you need to know about what is happening in their homeland.....rising wages, non-competitiveness, inflation, etc.
Just like Japan, China has peaked and will now enjoy 20 years of good times, followed by 30 years of bad times.
Meanwhile, India is rising.
Maybe they have Monopoly in China...and learn something from it.
Most of us learned nothing except how to mortgage our properties.
Yes, but Japan didn't have enough people to completely replace the population of the US. China does.
China is rapidly growing.
China also has five times America’s population.
America we need to stop buying everything imported. We need to bring back American jobs.
Now.
America we really, really need to be for American jobs.
We have in one single generation, sold out the best nation of earth.
We have sold out our very own country.
Both parties. Everyone. America get with it, we are being bamboozled and sold down the river.
America needs to work, and needs jobs.
American jobs. America stop buying everything imported.
Buy things made right here.
Whoa! I had no idea. Frightening!
The question tho is whether the Chinese will use economic leverage of I e sort or another to effect changes to US immigration laws that result in a much higher number of Chinese immigrants.
Remember that the Chinese tend to think and plan decades, if not centuries down the road. Will Chinese immigrants, once naturalized, really abide by the Oath of Allegiance? Will their children, born citizens, hold those ideals and loyalties as well?
It’s east to look back at various immigrant groups, from the Irish to the Japanese and understand that the charges of divided or fake loyalites was BS. But they were here long before mechanisms existed (like they do today) to really allow them to be highly influenced if not controlled/directed by their countries of national origin.
I am against open globalization and always have been. It is a faced that we can all live together and sing kumbaya.
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