Posted on 07/18/2022 10:55:03 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
“It’s obscene that we would allow Chinese Communist Party stooges to profit off our resources. These are basic mistakes a serious country would never make. They are flooding us with fentanyl, launching cyber attacks, stealing our IP, and our current crop of failed leaders seems more or less OK with it. That needs to change,” Masters told Breitbart News.
Masters shared a tweet earlier that day about a former general in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, who is reported to own 200 square miles of land near Laughlin Air Base in Texas, commenting, “We are going to make this illegal.”
We are going to make this illegal https://t.co/vZQTPuHbBO
— Blake Masters (@bgmasters) July 17, 2022
Breitbart News reported on this land acquisition in August 2021, noting that Senator Ted Cruz speculated the Chinese Communist Party was engaging in “land purchase schemes” in sensitive locations to “expand its espionage capabilities.”
On July 1, the New York Post reported on another case of a Chinese entity purchasing land near an American military base:
A Chinese company’s purchase of farmland in North Dakota just down the road from a US Air Force base that houses sensitive drone technology has lawmakers on Capitol Hill worried about potential espionage by Beijing, according to a report.
This is not the first time Masters has expressed concern about the Chinese regime’s activities in the American economy, tweeting in December 2021 that “when it comes to international labor, trade, and investment, it’s time to wake up: we’re talking about foreign powers with their own interests.”
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It should be illegal, but isn’t.
It is even more absurd in that Americans cannot own even a square foot of land in China
we are one of a few countries that do not have “nationals only” laws.
if a company can make a buck, screw the country, give me the buck.
“nationals only” mean just that, Americans yes, foreigners no.
Why? This is just another example of China’s anti-globalism. < / s >
I remember in the 80s everyone was worried when Japan did it. It inflated the real estate market and then it crashed and all that land was sold for cheap. Japan actually helped make us richer buying at a premium and then selling at a loss.
The Chinese are acting like the colonizers of yore and, unless we do something about it, we are reassuming our status as a colony of a world power.
We won’t even uphold the natural born citizen clause which was meant to keep anyone born with a foreign nationality from being President.
Obama was born a British subject/Kenyan national and came back to the US as an Indonesian.
Harris was born a Jamaican/Indian.
Cruz was born a Canadian/Cuban.
Rubio was born a Cuban.
Jindal was born an Indian.
Haley was born an Indian.
George P Bush was born a Mexican.
The Japanese bought incredible amounts of land in the 80’s and lost heavily on everything they bought, eventually selling it back to Americans. They didn’t know how to manage the land or the Americans running the land. And ultimately, they could not cut the land apart and take it back to Japan.
Same with China. If we ever go to war, they lose everything back to the USA. Whether it be economic or military, they will lose the investment. Owning land here actually drops the possibilities of armed warfare. Why blow up land you own?
They have already bought up thousands of acres of farmland southwest of Houston. Been going on for years. Not a peep from our Governor or our Republican officials. Follow the $$$$
There’s a trick to this and it goes way back to about 1790. Aliens couldn’t own lands (NYS). So the aliens became citizens and bouhg the land.
Betting the principals are citizens.
So how would such a law be written but not discourage foreign investment in this country?
Lots of farmland gets bought by foreign car companies to build factories employing Americans.
There was a time in America when we didn’t NEED laws to prevent this stuff because people were patriotic and had common sense. This would have never happened back then. Laws or no laws. It would have been unthinkable. But now we need laws to tell people not to be treasonous.
Folks, this is another negative consequence of open borders. Our national heritage and culture is being systematically destroyed by the massive influx of non-Christian, foreign, third world peoples who have no loyalty or concern for the American way of life. Diversity is breeding balkanism. Diversity is NOT a strenght, but a weapon of war designed to divide us so they can easily conquer us. These 3rd world immigrants could care less about “old dead white men” or your constitution or your heritage or your way of life. They want to bring THEIR way of life. They want THEIR heritage honored. They want THEIR people in the countries they came from to benefit from American might and wealth. Open borders is treason. Mass immigration is genocide. Thank Ted Kennedy.
Calm down Blake. When Trump comes back he’ll just nationalize all that property and call it covid reparations.
It is not ONLY the Chinese. People from countries all over the world are doing this. I sat next to a Columbian who buys houses for the taxes owed. He loves America and said he has 30 houses and counting he rents out. Illegal in other countries.
What you say is true, but China is our enemy. An American cannot buy any land there, so maybe reciprocity could come into play. It still should not be allowed. Period.
How long before they claim those lands as Chinese territory?! I would not be surprised at all.
Agreed. China needs to be pushed out. They are the enemy. This isn’t Japan in the 1980s.
Investing in real estate is very risky.
As interest rates rise China is going to lose billions of dollars just like Japan did in the 1980s.
As another poster said—they can’t take the land with them.
I would rather this be a state or local issue in any event. If folks in a specific area are very concerned about it I have no issue if they want to have restrictions.
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