(cont'd from yesterday's post)
Concern and suspicion about the land purchase near Travis AFB are not unique to the California congressman. People want to know who this buyer is, and specifically if China is behind it.
Concern is rising about the China's growing real estate purchases in various parts of the U.S. That's because China is viewed as an aggressive competitor of ours, at least, and maybe an actual enemy. People don't like it when a purchase is near a military base.
It's come up before. A Chinese company bought 300 acres twenty miles down the road from Grand Forks Air Force Base (North Dakota). They tried to set up a milling plant last year, but there was opposition, including politicians from both parties.
An Air Force officer commented, “Some of the most sensitive elements of Grand Forks exist with the digital uplinks and downlinks inherent with unmanned air systems and their interaction with space-based assets.”
Said one senator, “I think we grossly underappreciate how effective they are at collecting information, collecting data, using it in nefarious ways.”
The city of Grand Forks didn't approve the mill. But the land still belongs to the Chinese company, and people are not happy about it.
from CNBC
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