One more point, they claim that this project will increase US exports? I guess they mean US export of Chinese goods, but how do you suppose they plan to export from southern Idaho?
This article, thought highly irrational, has a better explanation of the free trade zone.
http://www.wnd.com/2011/01/257721/ “This ambitious, long-term proposal would start with a manufacturing and warehouse zone tied to the airport, and could signify a shift in the economic relationship between the two superpowers,” the Idaho Statesman’s Rocky Barker reported.”
It is much smaller than the size I was originally thinking. I was thinking 50 by 50 miles instead we are talking about.
“Officials of the China National Machinery Industry Corporation have suggested developing a technology zone occupying 10,000 to 30,000 acres south of the Boise airport for industry, retail centers and homes.”
It also points out these free trade zones are not a new thing: “Corsi noted that the U.S. government has created 257 foreign trade zones, or FTZs, throughout the United States, designed to extend special U.S. customs treatment to U.S. plants engaged in international-trade-related activities.”
It seems pretty far fetched to go from the above policies to Chinese invasion.