Posted on 08/13/2023 4:03:08 PM PDT by Libloather
A rural community in Michigan has hailed a 'huge victory' after a Chinese-owned industrial firm backed out of buying local farmland.
Residents of the idyllic Green Charter Township, around 50 miles east of Lake Michigan, say they were 'bullied' into accepting the takeover, but refused to do so.
Gotion, a company that 'pledges allegiance' to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), did, however, complete the purchase of 260 acres of derelict industrial land in the township and 10 acres of disused farmland last week.
It comes as data shows Chinese firms now own more than $2billion worth of US farmland, up from just $162million a decade ago, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The CCP has a stake in 383,935 acres of American agricultural land as of December 2021, according to the latest figures released by the US Department of Agriculture.
By comparison, Bill Gates owns 248,000 acres of US farmland, while Jeff Bezos owns 420,000.
It has sparked a national debate over why the US is allowing a hostile state to buy up vital land across the country amid concerns over espionage and security.
Hundreds of residents in Green Charter Township, Mecosta County, have previously turned out to protest the Gotion deal, in which the firm is to be paid $175million in direct taxpayer funding to help it build the facility.
Questions have also been raised over allowing a CCP-subsidiary to move into a site that is just 100 miles away from a US military camp where the Michigan National Guard has been training troops from Taiwan - a territory neighboring China some security experts, including among the US military, say Beijing is preparing to invade.
In a statement confirming the purchase of 270 acres of land in Green Charter Township last week, Gotion said it had 'listened to concerns of local residents...
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“You won’t even defend yourself from a tranny fag soy boy or urban hominid hitting you in the face. You’ll just stand there or curl up on the ground rather than FIGHT”
It’s not our fault. You got to admit you don’t see that kind of stuff very often. So, should we go looking for them or what?
I would like to see a picture of “derelict” industrial land, and 10 acres of “disused” farm land. Some liar is playing fast and loose with the English language.
And those Damn politician’s in Washington do nothing about it but line their pockets.
They’ve been doing it for a while, but if government, county-state-federal, allowing anything Chinese to buy up any real estate in the US, that alone should make voters replace every member of government they can. Damn near all of them.
This is what can happen when ignorant leftist voters support criminals to run our country!
Review Deliverance. Practice saying “Squeal like a pig!” and “You’ve got purty eyes.” Scare them off.
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