[GodfearingTexan]

Since we are selling all of these major private corp.s to a govt funded entity in China, why not make some real money and just allow them to buy the white house, or the grand canyon? i see a problem when we sell something so huge to a chinese operation. regardless of the fact that they will now be able, eventually, to get a better understanding of our electronic communications systems, if they own a majority share they can effectively do whatever they want - like move all their jobs back to the prc. or am i wrong?

[Poohbah]

i see a problem when we sell something so huge to a chinese operation. regardless of the fact that they will now be able, eventually, to get a better understanding of our electronic communications systems, if they own a majority share they can effectively do whatever they want - like move all their jobs back to the prc. or am i wrong?

If they move "all of the jobs back to the prc," then that means that someone else will provide the jobs over HERE. (They can't exactly rip out all of the fiber and take it to China--so any move as you describe would amount to abandoning their infrastructure investment.)

As for your fear of the ChiComs being "able, eventually, to get a better understanding of our electronic communications systems," please note that we use radio quite extensively in the military, and that those signals can be intercepted very easily by ANYONE, including the ChiComs, and that they can gain a better understanding of our electronic communications systems much more easily than they would with this deal--because the aiwaves cost them nothing to run.