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Look up the FuFeng project where a Chinese company is trying to purchase land in North Dakota for an agriculture project near a US Air Force base. The city of Grand Forks even approved it but people are still trying to fight it because of national security risk.

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Every time I see stories like this I can't help but feel a twisted sense of respect for China, because they know how to read the rulebooks and take advantage of it all for everything we're worth.

Defeating the biggest military and geopolitical superpower known to mankind is trivial if you understand you can just ignore all that and instead buy it all up, and it becomes even more trivial if your enemy straight up gives you the monies for it. Literally free real estate.

So kudos to China, they know how to play to win and they're playing to win at all costs while we keep hoisting our own petards.

I'm not quite sure what the long game would be of buying up land. Obviously, in an escalation of contentions between the two countries, the US would simply seize said land.

I think the concern is they could be using it for surveillance of sensitive nearby targets leading up to such an escalation.

What's amazing is the USA allows foreign land purchases to nations that strictly forbid it.

Well, money has always been the rule of law of this land. The founding father's thought they were breaking the kingship. Marx even remarked on democracy being the best way to give the illusion of fairness, while keeping capital in control.

https://prospect.org/power/congressmembers-tried-to-stop-sec...

Both democrats and republicans, it's just musical chairs, they are all pilfering us.

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