The use of the term “foreign superpower” by the author is telling. The USA receding off the world scene is making the planet far more dangerous.
Weren’t the Japanese doing the same thing 30 years ago?
Well, duh; converting soon-to-be-worthless dollars into physical assets. Land, the new gold. When will the commercials start?
Will China pull a Putin in USA?
Outrageous and totally stupid on our part.
No, I don’t like the idea - but at the same time I do remember the Japanese buying up everything in sight a while back.
Uhmmm K. You know me, don’t take this personally.
So!?!???
Let em buy the land. Are they going to take it back to Kommie land?
Of course not.
The land is purchased under United State law and will remain a part of our sovereign control...forever.
The Chinese, like the Japanese before them are investing in America.
That land and the buildings will be used to put American dollars in circulation and put Americans to work.
Australia, Canaduh, The UK own large amounts of real estate in America
Hell , we are always a good bet and great return on investment.
BTW, the Netherlands(crappy, tiny little country that also owns Nestled) owns a huge amount of our land and is in the top 3 of foreign investors in our real estate.
Amazing such a dinky country owns as much as they do but, that is due in large part to the leadership of Queen Beatrix and diversification of investments around the globe.
Here is a quick rundown of foreign ownership in Murica:
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Canadian investors own the most reported foreign held agricultural and non-agricultural land, with 28 percent, or 7,250,834 acres. Foreign persons from the Netherlands own 19 percent, Germany owns 7, the United Kingdom owns 6 and Portugal owns 5. Together, 9,511,437 acres or 36 percent of foreign-held acres are owned by individuals or entities from these countries.
Read more here:
http://modernfarmer.com/2013/09/owns-us-agricultural-land/
Yes. Back in the '80s and probably even earlier, it was the Japanese who were beating us in business and buying up buildings, land, shopping centers etc from coast to coast.
WE were taught that the Japanese described American business tactics as: "Ready, fire, aim." Ah, those were the days when competition still existed. Now, Japanese cars are as accepted as "ours," and the Chinese have all the business advantages because our companies chose to hand it to them.
Oh!!
The website in the OP is selling the #1 product on the world.
It outsells porn and many other products.
What is their product? Schtick? Hook?
Well, it’s “FEAR”.
Understable, given they are hocking end of the world or mere SHTF services and other stuff.
They are not The brightest bulbs and fairly dull knives.
Just not very good tools among all the choices for tools you need.
I’d read them more for entertainment and the occasional nugget of true value.
But, I would suggest Survivalblog.com as an alternative.
Much more pragmatic and delivers actual information and tools you can use to prepare for your future.
There is a slight difference between what Japan did and what the Chinese are doing now. Was Japan threatening to nuke us in the 1980s? China has other designs on us besides investment. I don’t know what they are, but they are not our friend, and not a friendly competitor.
I’m less bothered by Chinese buying land than I am by the prospect that they will use this land to resettle part of their enormous population.
Remember how buying overpriced US real estate worked out for Japan?
What China is doing is different and appears more like laying the ground work for colonization. We already have a fifth column of Chinese in this country who are not Americans in anything but a technical sense. Don’t forget the tens of thousands of Chinese anchor babies that have citizenship but are still in China.
This yet another reprise of the “Japan will own everything” scare and “the Arabs will own everything” scare before that. They can’t put what they buy on a plane and send it home.
For an interesting take review what happened when the Japanese bought Rockefeller Center. Short spoiler...... they got their hair taken
One day soon we will wake up and there will be an announcement from the White House that we have a choice to make,face nuclear annihilation,or allow the Chinese to take control of our Government.
The only question asked by the American people will be, do we get to keep our Social Security, free phones and food stamps?
Maybe they have Monopoly in China...and learn something from it.
Most of us learned nothing except how to mortgage our properties.
America we really, really need to be for American jobs.
We have in one single generation, sold out the best nation of earth.
We have sold out our very own country.
Both parties. Everyone. America get with it, we are being bamboozled and sold down the river.
America needs to work, and needs jobs.
American jobs. America stop buying everything imported.
Buy things made right here.
Whoa! I had no idea. Frightening!