{"id":1838157,"date":"2023-02-07T10:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1838157"},"modified":"2023-02-07T10:35:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:35:39","slug":"north-dakotans-take-matters-in-their-own-hands-block-chinese-mill-near-military-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-dakotans-take-matters-in-their-own-hands-block-chinese-mill-near-military-base\/","title":{"rendered":"North Dakotans Take Matters In Their Own Hands, Block Chinese Mill Near Military Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnorth-dakotans-take-matters-in-their-own-hands-block-chinese-mill-near-military-base%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1838157&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>North Dakota citizens saw the Chinese plan to build a cornmill near a sensitive military base.<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Forks City Council decided unanimously to prevent Fufeng Group, a Chinese food producer from building the mill, 12 miles away from Grand Forks Air Force Base, in the wake of what was believed to have been a Chinese spy satellite being brought down. Last spring three North Dakotans sold the land for millions of dollars; the town\u2019s mayor, Brandon Bochenski, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/07\/01\/chinese-purchase-of-north-dakota-farmland-raises-national-security-concerns-in-washington.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It should be noted<\/a> The proposed plant, estimated at $700 million, would create more jobs than 200. However it was also acknowledged that there were national security issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) considered an October 2022 filing by the Fufeng Group to acquire certain assets in the vicinity of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Grand Forks Air Force Base is the center of military activities related to both air and space operations,\u201d U.S. Air Force Assistant Secretary Andrew P. Hunter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11704309\/Air-Force-shoots-Chinas-plan-build-corn-15-miles-North-Dakota-base.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\">Warned<\/a> John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer, North Dakota senators, in January<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile CFIUS concluded that it did not have jurisdiction, the Department\u2019s view is unambiguous: the proposed project represents a significant threat to national security with both near and long-term risks of significant impacts to our operations in the area,\u201d He concluded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith regard to Fufeng, if you\u2019re going to strategically decouple, that means we don\u2019t want their investment,\u201d Cramer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.am1100theflag.com\/show-episodes\/48874-6-03-22-whats-on-your-mind-hour-2\"><\/a> last June.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, Air Force Major Jeremy Fox (April 1, 2008) <a href=\"https:\/\/a01ec18d-6786-4fc4-8ad0-5db3687fbb3e\/v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I wrote a memo<\/a> stating, \u201csome 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,\u201d adding, \u201cif proximal access were given to our adversaries, and their collections were directed at us, it would present a costly national security risk causing grave damage to (the) United States\u2019 strategic advantages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPassive collection of those signals would be undetectable, as the requirements to do so would merely require ordinary antennas tuned to the right collecting frequencies. This introduces a grave vulnerability to our Department of Defense installations and is incredibly compromising to US National Security,\u201d He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamestownsun.com\/opinion\/columns\/hennen-new-threats-from-the-proposed-chinese-investment-in-grand-forks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">continued<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Monday meeting featured comments by members of the public prior to the vote. One citizen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11720609\/Air-Force-chief-begs-North-Dakota-not-let-Chinese-company-build-corn-secret-base.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Snapped<\/a>, \u201cWhy would an individual, or individuals, or a company be involved with somebody that is aggressive to the United States, especially if they\u2019re an adversary against us? The only conclusion I come is up with is money, black mail prestige, power, sedition, treason. I\u2019m not understanding, why would you advocate for it? How can you defend yourself against a foreign enemy against the United States? Those are questions that need to be asked.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people of North Dakota saw the Chinese plan for opening a corn mill near a sensitive military base and took matters into their own hands, blocking the project. In the wake of what was reputedly a Chinese spy balloon being shot down after it floated over sensitive U.S. military installations, the Grand Forks City &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1838160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6573,4728,4117,17904,6307,6398,4505,5213],"class_list":["post-1838157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-base","tag-block","tag-chinese","tag-dakotans","tag-hands","tag-matters","tag-military","tag-north"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1838160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}