Chicoms buy large parcel near a US drone base

 Washington Examiner:

A Chinese government -linked company bought a huge plot of land just miles from a crucial military drone base in North Dakota .

Fufeng Group, a massive agricultural company with strong ties to Beijing , purchased 370 acres as a location for its new wet corn mill in the agribusiness park in Grand Forks, a short distance from Grand Forks Air Force Base .

The Grand Forks base is one of the key locations for the RQ-4 Global Hawk drone , a “remotely piloted aircraft with intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities” used by the United States around the world; the drone “relies on the maintenance provided by Airmen in the 319th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron” at Grand Forks. Last year, a $64 million Global Hawk drone crashed 7 miles from the base.

CHINESE DRONE MAKER RAMPED UP LOBBYING SPENDING THIS YEAR

RQ-4 Global Hawk drones have been celebrated by the Air Force for "providing warfighters with an evolutionary high-altitude, long-endurance ISR capability" and have been used in missions since 2001.

The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission warned in May that Fufeng has “ties to the Chinese government” and “ties to the" Chinese Communist Party. The security commission noted that the U.S. air base “houses some of the United States’ top intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities” and that “the location of the land close to the base is particularly convenient for monitoring air traffic flows in and out of the base, among other security-related concerns.”
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The Chinee government related entities have been buying land in strategic locations around the US recently.  This is in addition to the purchase of homes in the US by cinese millionaires. 

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