Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

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
KEYWORDS: chinese; cities; coming
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 141-159 next last
To: who knows what evil?
...so how many of these 'U.S. Cites' do we have on COMMUNIST Chinese soil? That's what I thought.

There are many enclaves of US people living in China working for US business over there. China has more to fear of becoming more westernized than we do of them.

Way too much fear mongering on this thread.


21 posted on 05/11/2012 1:21:26 PM PDT by trailhkr1 (All you need to know about Zimmerman, innocent = riots, manslaughter = riots, guilty = riots)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Hot Tabasco

“Y’ever notice there aren’t any Chinese guys named ‘Rusty’?” - George Carlin


22 posted on 05/11/2012 1:22:20 PM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: muawiyah
This is not at all a new thing in America.

The real problem with trying to insert something insidious into America is the fact that none have been able to keep America out.

Asians are a major tourist market to Michigan anyway. If it weren't for our tough business climate and liabilities, I've considered starting a niche hunting and fishing guide business catering primarily to Asians on private property of farmers I've known over the years.
23 posted on 05/11/2012 1:25:07 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: trailhkr1
Way too much fear mongering on this thread.

Didn't answer the question...

24 posted on 05/11/2012 1:26:05 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: MamaDearest
It will be extremely clean and lacking all crime. Like the Chinese Ghost Cities. No one lives there.


25 posted on 05/11/2012 1:28:31 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cripplecreek

Now that is a cool idea ... go for it.

You could make a fortune.


26 posted on 05/11/2012 1:30:46 PM PDT by patton (DateDiff)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: who knows what evil?
Didn't answer the question...

All the gnashing of teeth in the 1980's of the Japanese taking over this country answers it.

Again, the people coming over are investment folks and scientist and other types.

27 posted on 05/11/2012 1:31:21 PM PDT by trailhkr1 (All you need to know about Zimmerman, innocent = riots, manslaughter = riots, guilty = riots)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: MamaDearest
As long as they send plenty of these,

I have little objection.

28 posted on 05/11/2012 1:31:29 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MamaDearest

I’d rather have the Chi-coms than the Islamo Facists. There’s an Islamic temple outside Toledo with a tower as big as a Saturn 5 rocket


29 posted on 05/11/2012 1:31:54 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Keep your laws OFF my light bulbs !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: trailhkr1
I find Chinese mass colonizing efforts very disturbing. China is in the words of the Telegraph ‘an ominously powerful nation’ and it has, I believe, some sort of long term plan to dominate the planet through a combination of mass immigration, economic muscle and pure unalloyed military muscle. I would prefer any American city, say Detroit, stay a slum than be colonized by China so that it becomes a little piece of the PRC within the body of the US.
30 posted on 05/11/2012 1:32:53 PM PDT by robowombat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Hot Tabasco
I’ve never seen any obese chinese people.......

Well... now you have.

31 posted on 05/11/2012 1:34:16 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: cripplecreek
There's a bus company that does nothing but haul Chinese tourists from New York, NY to Corning, NY to Williamsport to Cooperstown to this that and the other place, and sometimes just down the street!

As they come Souf' on US 15 they go through a remarkable area of limestone hills (mogotes) that look exactly like a world famous area of limestone hills (mogotes) in Big China or Cuba.

We've encountered their tour groups several times over the years.

32 posted on 05/11/2012 1:34:23 PM PDT by muawiyah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: cripplecreek
There's a bus company that does nothing but haul Chinese tourists from New York, NY to Corning, NY to Williamsport to Cooperstown to this that and the other place, and sometimes just down the street!

As they come Souf' on US 15 they go through a remarkable area of limestone hills (mogotes) that look exactly like a world famous area of limestone hills (mogotes) in Big China or Cuba.

We've encountered their tour groups several times over the years.

33 posted on 05/11/2012 1:34:23 PM PDT by muawiyah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: cripplecreek

Oh, and be sure to include at trip to Wally Worrd, so they can purchase all of their gear locally - at their expense, of course, rather than ship it in from China.

LOL.


34 posted on 05/11/2012 1:36:03 PM PDT by patton (DateDiff)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: 11th_VA
There’s an Islamic temple outside Toledo with a tower as big as a Saturn 5 rocket

And probably contain the same amount of explosive materials.

35 posted on 05/11/2012 1:36:05 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: MamaDearest

You can save a lot of money on warhead delivery systems if you can just rent an apartment for them near the target site.


36 posted on 05/11/2012 1:37:56 PM PDT by clearcarbon
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: UCANSEE2

Pervert.


37 posted on 05/11/2012 1:38:09 PM PDT by patton (DateDiff)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: MamaDearest
Next, American laogais where citizens comrades can work off the debt we owe to China.
38 posted on 05/11/2012 1:38:27 PM PDT by Noumenon (If people saw socialists for what they truly are, slaughter would ensue - in self-defense.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cripplecreek; MamaDearest; All

Thanks for the ping; thread. Very interesting information and comments. Read them ALL BUMP!


39 posted on 05/11/2012 1:40:54 PM PDT by PGalt
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: robowombat
I find Chinese mass colonizing efforts very disturbing. China is in the words of the Telegraph ‘an ominously powerful nation’ and it has, I believe, some sort of long term plan to dominate the planet through a combination of mass immigration, economic muscle and pure unalloyed military muscle. I would prefer any American city, say Detroit, stay a slum than be colonized by China so that it becomes a little piece of the PRC within the body of the US

This is Richmond Hill in Canada which is a Chinese community. It is one of the most thriving and wealthy areas in Canada. it's a major hub of technology based companies.


40 posted on 05/11/2012 1:41:17 PM PDT by trailhkr1 (All you need to know about Zimmerman, innocent = riots, manslaughter = riots, guilty = riots)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 141-159 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson