Wait'll you get your property-tax bill and your insurance package....and bill.
The Chinese government is using these people to mount a "soft power" demographic invasion of the West Coast.
Never mind its "softness", this is big-power wargaming for ownership of North America. We've just been engaged. The Chinese are finally coming.
They've watched our political fecklessness about immigration, and now they're using their slave-labor-subsidized "free trade" profits to drive an entering wedge into California.
Vancouver was a test. This is the real deal. I should imagine Hawaii's also on the shopping list. After all, the Chinese notified us a couple of years ago that they intend to "share" the central Pacific with us (after throwing us out of WESTPAC). The PLA-Navy visited Pearl Harbor a couple of years ago to participate in a naval exercise ..... and no doubt to measure the drapes.
Obama's parting gift (assuming he leaves): A Chinese demographic and (eventually) military enclave on the West Coast. Wonder if they want to buy San Diego, too? They're already in the Puget Sound complex, at Vancouver. Wonder how many ethnic Chinese are in Vancouver? Anybody keeping track, or is that insensitive and politically incorrect? Do the Chinese run Vancouver yet?
I learned by attending a police-community interaction meeting in 2008 that Chinese consular personnel were leaning on area Falun Gong members who were immigrants from China. One of the officers emphasized to the Falun Gong people, that no matter where they lived, as ethnic Chinese they were subject to, and if it came down to it, property of, the Chinese government. This hasn't happened since the German attempts to draft German-Americans in World War I. The Chinese government claims, and means to exercise, extraterritorial sovereignty over all "overseas Chinese", regardless of citizenship. Their Chinese ethnicity trumped all legal and other considerations and gave the Peking government rights in them. They were Chinese, period.
It's important that Americans understand this particular Chinese view: that Chinese immigrants to America never, ever lay down their allegiance to China.
The logical sequel is that any Chinese immigration in numbers is a demographic attack on the United States by the Chinese government, the same as if they'd sent Chinese infantry.
Unlike the inflooding Mexicans, the colonizing Chinese are backed by an ancient, imperial government that owns a nuclear arsenal, the will to use it, and a belief that China, by virtue of her numbers, is invulnerable to thermonuclear warfare at the top level. This is a truly dangerous enemy, and he is sending his people here not to become American citizens and pursue life, liberty, and happiness, but to work the imperial Chinese will on the kwai loh where they live, to dispossess and helotize them in their own country.
Dissenting opinions?
Due to Prop. 13 back in the 70s, California only reassesses when the property is sold. I pay basically the same property tax I've paid for 15 years, even though my house is worth almost three times more. Insurance doesn't really change much because the growth is all land value, not the residence.
Your analysis is frightening but I believe realistic.
My own view is that the Arabs are in a lot more jeopardy.
China looks like the big hog at the oil trough these days.
They won’t kiss the sheiks @sses like we do.
Thank God for the frackers who have put the US in a much better situation with our oil and gas supply.
Not really a dissent, but two points:
First, a lot of Chinese money is not subject to the Red Chinese government as the people with the money are taking the money out of China because they found a way to do this. They got rich off the Red Chinese system and now they want to enjoy it. I do not know about some sects that as you say may keep their loyalty to the home country. This failure to assimilate has been a problem with immigration from lots of people, most noticeably with Muslims today. I agree this is not good.
Second, this has been going on for a long time, and was done by the Japanese even before that. The crash of US real estate values hurt the Japanese investor and many sold back out (lower). I once played golf with an agent from Fox and Carskadon who went to China and set up deals to sell mansions in Hillsboro. He only had to make one deal a year to earn a fabulous salary. (This would be around 1980)
bkmk
Very good and all correct/ Chinese money is also buying up Queens, NYC. real estate.
Over the last ten years we have had more legal Asian immigrants than Hispanics. Of course Chinese are just part of that Asian influx.
Australia is also being flooded by legal Asian immigration from China and India. Tens of thousands of Chinese students studying in Australia universities. I doubt they will be returning home after their studies.
My favorite story is a Chinese fellow paying 40 million for an Australian vineyard sight unseen. All to hustle his money out of the PRC