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
Not much in the way of morels this year. I saw a couple about a week back but there weren’t enough to mess with. I do use a lot of wood sorrel in salads. It gives a nice lemon flavor.
Still sniffing that Chinese glue, aren’t you?
I have democrat aquaintances from childhood who still live there. They are of one mentality: If it doesn't involve them personally today, it isn't important.
We had three different Japanese exchange students living us years ago. All had grandparents living with them and there was literally no room between homes. The boys were amazed we owned acreage and fascinated with the variety of food available at American grocery stores.
And what you fail to understand is what the situation in China is like. For the most part, China is rapidly becoming a free enterprise country economically with a totalitarian social policy.
China is becoming a simmering pot internally with the new rich chafing against the social restrictions still enforced by the hard-line communists in government. The new wealthy are leading the charge. In addition, wealthy Chinese citizens tend for the most part to have great admiration for the United States, its culture, its freedom, and its economic prosperity. The most expensive schools in China are taught by Americans in English. Wealthy families jump at the chance to have their middle school and high school students come to the US for their schooling.
The new wealthy are coming to be assimilated, not to “take over”. And they are the ones doing business here in the US. They are as free enterprise as any immigrant you will find.
Valid point - if the highest jobs in the land goes/went to a Kenyan, what's to stop a Chinese person for the same opportunity? As of 2008, all stories about children studying hard to have a chance at becoming president seem as far fetched as not eating your dinner and starving a child from China.... It appears the entire United Nations will have a shot at the job before we do.
The Chinese seem to have a very low tolerance for muslim shenanigans:
Snip; Since the 1990s, the Chinese government has been carrying out systematic policies that discriminate against Uighurs. Their language is forbidden in schools; government employees cannot have long beards or head scarves and are not allowed to pray or fast during working hours. Uighurs also face strong discriminatory practices in education, healthcare, housing, and employment. Young Uighurs are often forced to work in faraway provinces, while Han Chinese -- who comprise about 90 percent of China's population -- are encouraged to move to Xinjiang, the autonomous region where Uighurs are the largest ethnic group. More than 2 million have settled there.
Just today we learned that an Indian tech company will be coming to Jackson Michigan. The management will be Indian but they intend to hire some 300 Americans for work on computers.
It won’t effect me directly but if the people working for the company spend money locally it will be good for all overall.
Very cool. I hope Mr. Wing and his business thrive.
You are welcome.
I don't care what China is or not becoming, wealthy, poor, educated, enterprising, ragged and or in poverty.....I care about 'this country' and 'it's people'...and we are sure in no position to be offering high skilled , medium skilled or lower skilled jobs to any but Americans who are in need of work.
China is becoming a simmering pot internally with the new rich chafing against the social restrictions still enforced by the hard-line communists in government. The new wealthy are leading the charge.
Well then let them remain in their country and fight their way for the freedoms that we have instead of jumping their ship to jump onto ours.....our freedoms didn't come free....we fought for them here....If we close the door on all these foreigners coming in to "better their life", then they just might organize themselves and change their country. As long as we give them that here they will never change their own country.
Chinese citizens tend for the most part to have great admiration for the United States, its culture, its freedom, and its economic prosperity.
Oh is that so? Chinese Professor says : "Of course, we owned most of their debt, so now they work for us". In a room full of 'Chinese students' laughing...mad in the USA I might add. So who are those students?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTSQozWP-rM
Wealthy (Chinese) families jump at the chance to have their middle school and high school students come to the US for their schooling.
So what...that pretty much goes for most nations and has for eons...That's nothing new...Sheesh... They all want their education here.....but how many go back to their own nations when they're done to "better their countries"? We know the answer. Let them be taught in their own countries Universities...and we'll educate our own.
The new wealthy (Chinese) are coming to be assimilated, not to “take over”.... And they are the ones doing business here in the US. They are as free enterprise as any immigrant you will find.
Again, ask me if I care...let them set up their own businesses in China, or do what every other Chinese does to be successful in their country. We have Americans right here willing to do the same....and should be encouraged to do so over and above any other sovereign nations.."Desires".
Wealthy-Chinese families jump at the chance to have their middle school and high school students come to the US for their schooling
I don't care what they want...it's that simple....I don't care what the parents or their children want. This country is in no position to be offering foreigners anything over that of it's own citizens...let them learn and jump onto their own bandwagons there....we fought hard for our families here to have these freedoms....they should not be up for grabs by other nations who should be fighting for their own freedom.
We are loosing our nation to foreigners ideas of what are nation should be in “their’ minds....Ideologies, culture changes, etc. to accomodate them as they use our system to do just that.... and I’m just basically tired of it when I see daily foreigners given advantages over our own citizens...it’s got to stop!
1. No
2. Yes
3.American, never lived outside of the midwest.
4. Would like to see some of the money we sent to China come back here.
I agree. My grandparents came here from Europe to escape communism and here we are now watching celebrities, media, democrats, liberals, RINOs , corporations and supposedly intelligent investors embracing it. Politicians who alledgedly represent us are silent as the Constitution and Rule of Law are spat upon and disregarded.
We're in an economic war with government who sees our taxes as its stash to dole out to donors, foreign governments that despise us, companies that are financially unstable and activist groups aligned with the regime's agenda.
I don’t buy in to the Author’s premise. In China the business environment is very free market capitalist. The government is losing credibility on a nearly daily basis. If those businesspersons want to bring their free market here, without the government goons, then it will most likely be the most free market area of MI.
Instead, we will get articles like this so that our local government goons can squash them. Economic freedom is severely lacking here and over-reactions are the norm...
Bahhhh, bahhhh, bahhh.
Quite interrupting willful ignorance with facts and real world descriptions. There will be none of that when it interrupts good anti trade diatribes!
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