My neighbor said he sold his ~1400sq house for 750K and is moving out. .
good for me!!
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.
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