Is the plan to move Chinese into these houses sometime in the future? I’m sure California houses and Oregon Washington State look great too. Establish a Chinese beachhead on the West Coast of the United State
Nothing the Chinese do is innocent or naive
As we learn from Thomas Sowell (and, Henry Hazlitt), when you analyze economics, you have to think beyond stage 1 and on to stage 2, stage 3...for as far along as you can.
Leftist economists only think at stage 1. E.g., raise minimum wage and the poorest workers will have more money. Done. They finish thinking. Intelligent and conservative economists think beyond and say, stage 1, employers give more money to low-skill task workers. Stage 2, they are only paying that low wage because that is all they can afford. They can't afford more, so, instead of paying more, they lay off some of those workers. So, unemployment rises. Stage 3, the low-skill workers who are still working and who may or may not receive an increase in pay, take on the work of those laid off. Eventually, they ask for more money for the additional work. If the employer can't afford it, they lose a necessary worker. If they can, their overhead increases and they can't hire new workers. So, either business owners end up paying more for the low-skilled workers and have less money either to save for hard times to pay for the workers they have and avoid more layoffs, or, they lose good workers and their operations suffer, they potentially lose business, etc.
So, you ask what is the ChiCom’s plan?
Ostensibly, to invest in something that has more “real” value than the linen we call the US dollar.
Beyond that (stage 2) who knows what their plan could be, but, like you, I never trust a communist. As you said, they are not innocent or naive and they certainly are not altruistic.
Whether their goal is to ex-patriot Chinese agents to live amongst us and take up jobs with access to sensitive information, or whether they plan to purchase enough land in select areas to manipulate mortgage values, I honestly don't know.
But I don't trust them. And I don't believe allowing one of our worst enemies to invest in residential real estate is any more intelligent than allowing them to manufacture our smart bombs.
Could the Left Coast end up as China's Sudetenland? (just askin')