If they were just investing in a company that sounds OK, but they are purchasing land. They have been buying real estate like crazy all over this country for several years too. They can take advantage of our private property rights here but do American investors have those rights in China?
You sound like Trump. Can’t wait to hear him on this deal and repeat what you just said. Conservatives are already alarmed at our own government sucking up land use for parks. This deal is wide open for concern.
Just as 100American said, they cannot cut the land out and haul it back to China, nor is the technology being used something that isn’t already out there in the public domain.
When the Japanese bought all sorts of companies and properties in America, most of them failed and had to be sold back to Americans for bargain prices (think Rockefeller Center and Hollywood). The Chinese will probably have the same problem, their managerial style will not play well over here, the oil glut will kill their investment, etc. Then they will sell it back at a bargain.
It could be they are purchasing just the mineral rights and not the actual land. They are long term investors. They could invest in Mideast oil, but who the heck knows what’s going to happen over there? I’d say they are just trying to cover all the bases.