Posted on 05/11/2012 12:55:02 PM PDT by MamaDearest
A Chinese group known as "Sino-Michigan Properties LLC" has bought up 200 acres of land near the town of Milan, Michigan. Their plan is to construct a "China City" with artificial lakes, a Chinese cultural center and hundreds of housing units for Chinese citizens. Essentially, it would be a little slice of communist China dropped right into the heartland of America.
This "China City" would be located about 40 minutes from both Detroit and Toledo, and it would be marketed to Chinese business people that want to start businesses in the United States. Unfortunately, this is not just an isolated incident. In fact, Chinese companies have been buying up land and businesses all over the country in recent years. There has even been talk of establishing "special economic zones" inside the United States modeled after the Chinese city of Shenzhen. It was inevitable that the Chinese were going to do something with the trillions of dollars that they have made flooding our shores with cheap products. Now they are rapidly buying up pieces of America, and many of our politicians are welcoming them with open arms.
The town of Milan, Michigan is a small farming community of only about 6,000 people, but big changes are coming their way. The following is from a recent Dayton Daily News article about this new project….
A group of mainland Chinese known as Sino-Michigan Properties LLC paid $1.9 million for 200 acres of farmland on Milan city limits in purchases this year and in 2011, according to local officials and property records.
Unfortunately, the goal does not appear to be to integrate this new "city" into the existing community in and around Milan.
Rather, it appears that all of the new housing will be sold to people coming over from China. According to the Milan News Leader newspaper, the new housing units "would be marketed to Chinese business people who want to start companies in the United States".
In essence, we would be looking at a new Chinese city right in the middle of Michigan.
Doug Smith, senior vice president for business and community development for the Michigan Economic Development Corp., recently said the followingabout what the Chinese group plans to do….
"It’s a group that wants to build a China city, starting with housing over there in Milan"
Milan is not far from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, which is a very popular destination for Chinese students. Apparently that is one reason why Milan was chosen.
This new project would be a Chinese community built by Chinese and specifically designed for Chinese.
But isn't this supposed to be America?
Fortunately, the project does not have final approval yet. It still must be approved by the two townships outside of Milan where the land is located.
For some reason, the Chinese seem to be particularly interested in this area of the country.
For example, a different Chinese investment group has been busy buying up chunks of real estate over in nearby Toledo, Ohio. The following is from an article in the Toledo Blade on May 26th, 2011….
Dashing Pacific Group Ltd., which has already purchased the nearby Docks restaurant complex for $2.15 million, put its $3.8 million offer to buy the southern 69 acres at the Marina District in East Toledo back on the table for approval by Toledo City Council. Additionally, Dashing Pacific Chairman Yuan Xiaohong, in a letter signed in Hangzhou, said the firm wants a two-year option to buy the decommissioned Toledo Edison power plant property on the site.
So should we be alarmed that the Chinese are buying up pieces of America?
Well, if they simply wanted to enjoy living in America and wanted to integrate into the wider community that would be one thing.
But it is another thing altogether to start dropping slices of communist China inside of U.S. territory.
In a previous article entitled "China Wants To Construct A 50 Square Mile Self-Sustaining City South Of Boise, Idaho", I discussed a potential deal that Sinomach (a company controlled by the Chinese government) was exploring with the government of Idaho. The following is a description of that potential project from an article in the Idaho Statesman….
A Chinese national company is interested in developing a 10,000- to 30,000-acre technology zone for industry, retail centers and homes south of the Boise Airport.
There was talk that this "technology zone" would be modeled after the "special economic zones" that have been developed in China. The city of Shenzhen is perhaps the most famous example of this.
Fortunately that deal appears to have stalled, but other mammoth deals have been moving forward in other parts of the country.,
For example, the Chinese have been very busy gobbling up oil and gas fields. The following is a quote from a local Texas news source about a deal that a company owned by the Chinese government did with Chesapeake Energy down in Texas….
State-owned Chinese energy giant CNOOC is buying a multibillion-dollar stake in 600,000 acres of South Texas oil and gas fields, potentially testing the political waters for further expansion into U.S. energy reserves.
With the announcement Monday that it would pay up to $2.2 billion for a one-third stake in Chesapeake Energy assets, CNOOC lays claim to a share of properties that eventually could produce up to half a million barrels a day of oil equivalent.
You can read more about that particular deal right here.
So is it really a good idea to be allowing the Chinese to buy up our precious energy resources?
The answer to that question is obvious.
Sadly, the examples noted above are not isolated incidents. The truth is that the Chinese have been snapping up real estate and business assets all over America as a recent Forbes article explained….
According to a recent report in the New York Times, investors from China are “snapping up luxury apartments” and are planning to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on commercial and residential projects like Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn. Chinese companies also have signed major leases at the Empire State Building and at 1 World Trade Center, the report said.
So get ready - the Chinese are buying up U.S. land and they are moving in whether you like it or not.
So what will the long-term consequences be of allowing a communist superpower to buy up large sections of America?
That is a very good question.
Source: American Dream
Try anywhere you think you can get away from it all......... And leave your computer, cell phone and truck back here..........LOL!
That's just Bull!
China and India have done a great job at propagandizing the American public.... We don’t need foreign workers... We need to give the jobs back to the Americans who created them to begin with..... That is the only way to get our economy going.... Importing millions of wealth siphoners whose only goal is to plunder us is not going to make our economy better.... It hasn't’t for the past 14 years and it won’t now.
Furthermore....U.S. 'employees' have been coerced to perjure themselves on Federal Documents, in order to bring tech-workers at lower wages from other countries to avoid paying U.S. Federal Income taxes.... You don't think that affects the American wage system?
We have illegal immigrants in construction and manual labor along with legal immigrants for “highly skilled” work... coming in on a vast number of Government Visa programs be it H1B, OPT, B1, L1, etc. .... educated foreigners are more valued as they are vulnerable to the threat of being deported if they don’t comply with unreasonable demands of a company, and the company knows they have this leverage.
....Companies just replace Americans with cheaper non-American labor and this applies to NOW the high-skilled jobs being given to foreigners , who then send that money to their home countries!
Obama has spearheaded replacing the American workforce with cheaper non-American labor.......Even the U.S. postal service 'advertises for workers who are green card holders'! .....Colin Powell says illegals work “all over his house”. .....The girl standing behind the perfume counter at Macy’s can hardly speak English. Americans could be doing all those jobs…
America for all practical purposes has declared (economic) war on its own workforce...and that's simply the truth no matter how you try and color in the lines.
It is the oldest real estate trick in the book to buy crappy land somewhere, mark it up big time, and sell it to out-of-towners who either don't know the value of the real estate, or will never show up anyway. An American example would be the Miami Beach real estate scam of the 1920s, where Floridans sold swamp land and plots of land literally offshore in the Atlantic to New Yorkers who they figured would never show up anyway. One of them eventually did go looking for his land, and blew the scam up when he actually found it (under water).
There are reasons these companies are targeting Chinese.
First, the Chinese are sitting on top of one of the largest real estate bubbles ever. People who got in on it are rich and want to continue, and people who got left out want to get in somehow. But the game is over now, at least in China. People need to invest somewhere else if they want to invest in real estate.
Second, it actually isn't that easy for just any Chinese person to legally come over here and live. So if the business was legitimate, why market towards customers unlikely to be able to live there? It makes it easier to run the scam, because the scam is based on the land and the owner not meeting too often.
So if this goes through, the houses will be built, but it will be a ghost city built to crappy standards but will look good in pictures on their website, and it will be filled with eager vitual proud Chinese real estate owners, but who still live in China. Then someone will actuall want to live there, and the shoddy construction will be found out, and the game will be over, but by then the company will have dissappeared.
We need to put a stop to this crap, or if we let it go, we should try to limit it to revitalizing areas like Detroit or some other city, and to supervise and enforce that these buildings are built up to code of an equivalent building in the country. Because we will be owning these houses eventually. We might as well not end up with a bunch of crap we will have to bulldoze soon after the circus leaves town.
Further the monies generated do not stay in this country as they profess....Billions are sent overseas...at a loss to our citizens who could be doing these jobs and funneling revenue thru our country.
You are dodging the point.
Not that I'm doubting, but it sounds interesting...do you have a reference?
BTW, when I tell black coworkers that there were black families in Bismarck back then.....they look at me with incredulous faces.
Ask any of the people employed by the Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi plants which have been built throughout the United States (Without Unions I might add) if they really give a sh!t where the corporate mones go........
You're sounding more and more like a disgruntled union worker with every post you make........
That’s right. The money goes, sovereignty goes, individual rights go when the economy is owned by a foreign government that doesn’t believe in them.
I haven't dodged anything, state your own point.
Chinese planned “self-sustaining city” in ‘Idaho’ would include manufacturing facilities, warehouses, retail centers and large numbers of homes for Chinese workers. Basically it would be ‘a slice of communist China dropped right into the middle of the United States.’
According to the Idaho Statesman, the idea would be to build a self-contained city with all services included. It would be modeled after the “special economic zones” that currently exist in China.
I haven't heard anything about Milan, although it's the other side of my county. According to Dayton Daily News, there hasn't been any major activity so far here in Milan. Milan's a blue collar farm/manufacturing area with some Ann Arbor commuters.
I'd expect something if anything to be more towards Saline because there's a large Asian population there. I'm not going to panic about it in Milan or even up where I'm at in Northfield Twp. I'm a little concerned with South Texas with our energy, but I don't blame the Chinese for that, but our government.
More bull crap....You just enjoy avoiding the topic by throwing out these companies, which by the way were also fought coming in here...so play a different tune.
!!!!!!!!!!Stop The Insanity!!!!!!!!
Sometimes that is the most I can say. I keep praying, I worry, I fear for our children’s future, which will be sold out, no make that HAS been sold out from under them before they are even conceived nevertheless born . . .
That's their own interpretation based on their own biased opinions......
They have no evidence whatsoever that these Chinese enclaves will be exclusive to Chinese only and if so, so what? You think they'll build a wall around them to keep caucasions out? You think they won't have job opportunities available for non Chinese?
And how about the tax revenues for the state if they become viable?
You should be more concerned about the state of the economy and the lack of jobs.........Which the Chinese seem to have a handle on.
Should we prefer the Chinese or the Muslims as over lords? John Adams and George Washington are rolling over in their graves with contempt for today’s leaders.
There is almost no evil greater than the chinese communists in this world today.
If that's the best answer to my statement to you then you're an epic fail dude...........
Go to your union meeting, you're running late. Your union contributed to the problem and the imports were the solution.........
So that’s where Hussein hid his wmd?
Holy Toledo or should I say Unholy Toledo?
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