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Chinese cities coming to America
rightsidenews ^ | May 10, 2012 | American dream

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
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Emphasis mine.
1 posted on 05/11/2012 12:55:05 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: MamaDearest

Let me understand this. In the U.S., white people are not allowed to turn away real estate or rentals from people of other races. Bed & Breakfasts, wedding halls and other small, Christian or family-owned businesses cannot turn away gay people. But foreign interests can market exclusively to other foreigners or racialists without penalty?


2 posted on 05/11/2012 1:00:51 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Real men are not threatened by strong women." -- Sarah Palin)
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To: MamaDearest
I don't have a problem with this. They did the same thing in Toronto Canada. It is a super thriving area, spotless clean and zero crime.

This will do nothing but help the area. Go to Toronto and you will see. And lot's of Americans will get jobs from it.

3 posted on 05/11/2012 1:01:18 PM PDT by trailhkr1 (All you need to know about Zimmerman, innocent = riots, manslaughter = riots, guilty = riots)
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To: Albion Wilde
If the ChiComs just bought Berkeley, it would be more capitalist than it is now.
4 posted on 05/11/2012 1:02:46 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: MamaDearest

“Forget it, Marge, it’s Chinatown.”


5 posted on 05/11/2012 1:03:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: MamaDearest
Hmmm. Anybody ever hear of Bismarck North Dakota. That's a planned community with its roots in the Prussian Empire. Then we have New Orleans, New York, St. Louis, Louisville, Gallipolis, a whole series of Spanish missions in California, Santa Fe ~ the FIRST la villa real (a sort of Spanish government center) North of the current Mexican border (that we know of).

Then there are the British investment zones ~ again, Greater New York, Philadelphia Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and so forth.

This is not at all a new thing in America.

6 posted on 05/11/2012 1:04:13 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: MamaDearest
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.

Relatively small handfuls of immigrants tend assimilate into the "melting pot". Large waves of them form enclaves and resist assimilation with a much higher melting point, e.g., muslims, Mexican illegals.

7 posted on 05/11/2012 1:05:40 PM PDT by Spirochete (Sic transit gloria mundi)
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To: MamaDearest

No doubt it will also be Chinese sovereign territory.


8 posted on 05/11/2012 1:08:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Do I really need a sarcasm tag? Seriously? You're that dense?)
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To: Albion Wilde
Probably not. Company towns used to be really common in the US. A rather famous one near Chicago, Pullman, Illinois, is still fairly intact but you had to be an employee to live there.

The same company so paternalistic here fought hard against the union ~ hence the famous Pullman Strike.

9 posted on 05/11/2012 1:08:22 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Springman; sergeantdave; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; ...
Not sure what to make of this.

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10 posted on 05/11/2012 1:08:42 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Albion Wilde
Yes, this reads like a movie treatment for a bad dystopian film. This is a toe in the water experiment. If it passes muster others will be proposed around the US. A literal 5th column will be planted within our country. This is an evolving strategy. First the PRC encouraged mass Chinese emigration, even of Chinese technically opposed to the regime, to Canadian cities such as Vancouver and Toronto. Virtual Chinese colonies have been planted in Panama, Brazil and the tri border region in Paraguay. How many PRC agents are embedded no one knows but they are numerous is the general perception. The Han people are on the march and they have the cash to buy stooges wholesale (the mayor of Baton Rouge, La is one of them). Be afraid, be very afraid.
11 posted on 05/11/2012 1:09:02 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: MamaDearest; All
This story was broke on WAAM in Ann Arbor on "Thayrone-X's" Show..

You gotta check out Thayrone, he is a hoot...

12 posted on 05/11/2012 1:09:26 PM PDT by taildragger (( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I thought the Chinese are going to war with the Philippines ,so they are building a city in the US for the Leaders to hide


13 posted on 05/11/2012 1:11:18 PM PDT by molson209
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To: MamaDearest
...so how many of these 'U.S. Cites' do we have on COMMUNIST Chinese soil?

That's what I thought.

14 posted on 05/11/2012 1:14:04 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: taildragger

Thayrone is the whip.


15 posted on 05/11/2012 1:14:30 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: robowombat
First the PRC encouraged mass Chinese emigration, even of Chinese technically opposed to the regime, to Canadian cities such as Vancouver and Toronto.Be afraid, be very afraid.

Why be afraid?

I have been to northern Toronto numerous times. You can walk down the street at 2;30 in the morning with money hanging out of your pockets and be safe. The Chinese turned a bad section of the city into a thriving, super modern area.

The Chinese refuse is not coming over but their scientist, PHD's, business entrenprenours.

The Chinese in Toronto are more capitalist than most Americans.

16 posted on 05/11/2012 1:15:54 PM PDT by trailhkr1 (All you need to know about Zimmerman, innocent = riots, manslaughter = riots, guilty = riots)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Are you kidding me? I rather think not. Let them come - we can use the investment.


17 posted on 05/11/2012 1:16:50 PM PDT by patton (DateDiff)
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To: MamaDearest

I’ve never seen any obese chinese people.......


18 posted on 05/11/2012 1:19:52 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My 6 pack abs are now a full keg......)
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To: Albion Wilde
But foreign interests can market exclusively to other foreigners or racialists without penalty?

Under the law they cannot. I suggest all Americans of any race start putting in bids on these homes. It will royally screw their plans.


19 posted on 05/11/2012 1:20:06 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: 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. ]

How the crap are they going to put in a artificial lake without the EPA harassing them....

Oh wait they are commie Chinese.... Nevermind


20 posted on 05/11/2012 1:20:17 PM PDT by GraceG
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