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A proposed Chinese wind farm in Texas poses national security concerns, warned China-watcher and hedge fund manager Kyle Bass. The Blue Hills Wind development in southwest Texas’s Val Verde County has attracted heightened scrutiny in recent months, with lawmakers and experts signaling concern that the Chinese project could be used as a cover for espionage and to disrupt the state’s power grid. The proposed wind farm site is about 30 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border and near the Laughlin Air Force Base, the U.S. Air Force’s largest pilot training facility. The land for the wind farm is owned by a...

WASHINGTON—A proposed wind farm project in West Texas has become a potential national security issue due to its Chinese owner who has ties to the communist regime in Beijing and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), experts say. A Chinese-owned company called GH America Investment Group since 2015 bought 130,000 acres of land—an area the size of Tulsa, Oklahoma—in Val Verde County, Texas. The man behind the investment firm is Sun Guangxin, a businessman from Xinjiang, China, who is described as a “carpetbagger” by Chinese media with strong ties to the communist regime, The Epoch Times previously has reported. Sun, a...

Val Verde County Commissioners and County Judge Mike L. Fernandez are backing the county sheriff’s participation in the Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition’s “Operation Linebacker.” County commissioners court during their October regular term meeting on Monday, Oct. 10, unanimously passed a resolution supporting “Operation Linebacker,” a move by Texas’ border sheriffs to seek funding for a border security plan. The commissioners court’s resolution notes that Val Verde County consists of 3,233 square miles, and that the county shares 109.5 miles of border with Mexico. “The commissioners court of Val Verde County, Texas has been briefed by its chief law enforcement officer,...

Val Verde County Sheriff A. D’Wayne Jernigan this morning lauded a letter from Texas Congressional representatives that declares “a state of emergency” in security along the Texas-Mexico border. Asked his opinion about the security of the Texas-Mexico border in Val Verde County, Jernigan said, “You know the answer to that. It’s wide open. Anyone and anything can come across anytime they want.” Jernigan added, “Right now, any threat that you could possibly identify can cross the border in Val Verde County and threaten our national security. This border is porous, and we’re concerned that that does not seem to be...