Fufeng Group purchased for $2.6 million a 300-acre farm near Grand Forks, 90 minutes from the Canadian border and just 12 miles from Grand Forks Air Force Base, the presumed home of some of America’s most sensitive and sophisticated military drone technology, according to a report in the New York Post.
Located a mere 40 miles from the thousands of acres of potato farmland purchased for $13 million by a limited liability company that is believed to belong to billionaire Bill Gates, the Fufeng sale is yet another large swath of American farmland that has been gobbled up by Chinese in recent years.
“Fufeng Group said it is planning to use the land to build a $700 million corn milling plant that would create at least 200 jobs as well as residual opportunities for logistics, trucking, and other services,” The Post reports. “But U.S. military officials are raising the alarm nonetheless.”
“Senior Air Force officers circulated a memo in April warning that the presence of Fufeng Group in Grand Forks, a town of just 60,000 people was a national security...
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There's already corn plants in the area that have struggled for years, not sure who thinks another is really needed. Plus it's sugar beet land (much more profitable), not a lot of corn grown around the Grand Forks area.
ReplyDeleteFree markets be damned; NO land sales to foreigners EVER. And if it turns out that the purchaser was a shell company within a shell company within a shell company, we take back the land and keep the money.
ReplyDeleteYou KNOW this is a spy-op on their part. Our country is saturated with their spies, and they steal all of our secrets (well, the ones Bill Clinton doesn't give them directly). WAKE UP ALREADY.
The ChiComs already bought all our pigs. Bill "depopulate the world" Gates is buying farmland? Oh please.
How @#$ing stupid do you have to be?
Unfucking real that we allow the chicoms to buy anything in this country especially land. We are absolutely suicidal no doubt about it. Good luck going to China and buying land.
ReplyDeleteSame thing in Texas near an AF base. No telling where else.
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