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
As a side note, the girl in your photo resides in Kansas City, MO........
Wait until the bottom feeders find this place.
Same as the Irish and Italians who came over in the last century..for opportunities.
Our country has enough of a brain drain over the last 30 years and we have allowed the scum/criminal element of the Earth to enter.
I really have no problem with these educated/ capitalist seeking/wealthier ones to come in.
That’s what i’ve figured about those Chinese tourists. Almost all of them live in areas we’d consider urban. They can come here, stay in cheap motels, ride around in buses and see more unemcumbered real estate in an hour than they could doing the same thing in most of China.
Well it's pretty obvious you're on board with what the Chinese do here in our country from your posts.....but you need to understand some people are simply disgusted with the influx of foreigners bent on turning our nation into something more than American. And that is exactly what they do.
I don't give a rats behind how their neighborhoods look, or the caliber of people coming in. I truly don't. It's the fact that they are and in swarms.
Same goes for Muslims, Mexicans and all the others. Who do not assimilate but work to further their own political agendas for this nation to become what they want it to be...rather than assimilate into it for what it is.
The Bund comes immediately to mind. And if you think there aren't big expat communities in Hong Kong, Shanghai or Beijing, you are sorely mistaken.
Who can blame them? How many U.S. corporations have overseas operations that are run by Americans? Lets see, Ford, Chrysler, GM, .....etc.......
The Irish and the Italians assimulated into this country...they became Americans and all that it stands for.
I don’t buy they’re coming here for a better life, not a bit...nor the “brain drain” you adhere to. This is all about globalization, you plant people here , give them voting rights, and it’s no longer about what’s good for America.....it’s about their home countries and how to integrate the cultures worldwide.
I believe fully we all were designed with varying cultures and languages for a reason. That is being lost entirely with the push to unite peoples as one and I simply oppose this.
Free trade.
“I’ve considered starting a niche hunting and fishing guide business catering primarily to Asians on private property of farmers I’ve known over the years.”
I had a friend that did that in Tennessee, primarily Arab customers and he had nothing but problems with them. They just wouldn’t follow the rules and didn’t know a thing about firearms safety. I do however, think that Asians would be much more respectful of our laws and customs.
Yes, this is a function of “free trade” and why the GATT and FTAs were created.
You are a “free traitor” then?
I remember the panic in the eighties when it was claimed the Japanese were buying America. They didn’t.
Flee Tlade.
The Chinese in Toronto are more capitalistic, freedom loving and wanting small gov't than even most conservatives in this country who for instance bitch about Medicare and SS but put out their hands when it's their turn to get it.
I don't put these Chinese in the same category as Muslims or Mexicans. The Chinese just want to be left alone and make money and won't be on the gov't teat.
Free trade as we know it screwed the US. It was one sided trade.
Fleece trade more like it and we (the US) were the ones getting fleeced.
Every factory that closes down in this country is a human tragedy of immense proportions something that the Free Traitors seem to happily relish. Every factory, by simply existing here, contributes to our national security also. Limbaugh brainwashed many conservatives into thinking it was a good idea. I curse Rush for this. 93% of all private sector jobs are non union, so it ain’t that....
I didn't know the Japanese were Communists. Doesn't matter...it is evident from this thread that Communists no longer pose a threat. Carry on.
I think we invented new term.....
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