{"id":1987761,"date":"2023-08-01T13:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T17:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/company-suspected-of-china-ties-sues-farmers-over-land-sale-around-air-force-base\/"},"modified":"2023-08-01T13:32:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T17:32:34","slug":"company-suspected-of-china-ties-sues-farmers-over-land-sale-around-air-force-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/company-suspected-of-china-ties-sues-farmers-over-land-sale-around-air-force-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese-linked company sues farmers over land sale near Air Force base."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fcompany-suspected-of-china-ties-sues-farmers-over-land-sale-around-air-force-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=1987761&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--><h2>A\u200c Company Linked\u200d to Communist China Sues Farmers Over Land Purchase<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a controversial move, a company suspected of having ties to Communist China has filed\u2063 a \u200dlawsuit against farmers \u200bnear a California Air Force base. The company, \u200cFlannery Associates, has \u2062acquired over 50,000 acres of land\u200b around Travis Air Force\u200d base, spending approximately $800 million. Now, they are seeking $510 million from farmers, accusing them of inflating the sale price through\u2063 a secret conspiracy.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;It\u2019s a suit designed\u200d to force the farmers to\u200d lawyer up, spend \u2062tens of thousands of \u200cdollars \u200con lawyering and maybe at the end\u200c of the day, bankrupt themselves,&#8221; said \u200bCalifornia Democrat John \u200dGaramendi, \u2063who has been\u200d critical of the land acquisitions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Garamendi\u2064 has spoken with farmers who claim they did not want to \u2063sell their land, raising suspicions of illicit activities. The Air Force&#8217;s Foreign Investment Risk Review Office has been investigating the purchases for eight\u200b months but has been\u2062 unable to confirm the source of funding for Flannery Associates.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;We don\u2019t\u200c know who Flannery is,\u200b and their extensive purchases do not make sense to anybody in the area,&#8221; Garamendi expressed concern.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The situation has \u2062also raised questions about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-got-it-newsmax-reporter-emerald-robinson-national-security-source-confirms-a-piece-of-hardware-has-been-secured-in-germany\/\" title=\"We Got It! - Newsmax Reporter Emerald Robinson: National Security Source Confirms \"A Piece of Hardware Has Been Secured\" in Germany\">national security<\/a>, as Flannery \u2064Associates has acquired land surrounding three sides of the Travis Air Force Base. Garamendi and \u2064others suspect\u2062 that Chinese money may be involved, given previous instances of Chinese investment near military bases.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Nobody \u2062can \u2063figure out who they are,&#8221;\u2062 stated Ronald Kott, mayor\u2062 of Rio Vista, \u2062a town mostly surrounded by land purchased by Flannery Associates. &#8220;Whatever they\u2019re doing \u200b\u2014\u200b this \u200clooks like a very long-term \u200cplay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Chinese Investment Blocked Near North \u200dDakota Military \u200cBase<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is\u2063 not the first time concerns have been raised about Chinese investment near military bases. In North Dakota, the Grand Forks City Council voted\u2062 unanimously to block a Chinese food producer, Fufeng Group, from \u200bbuilding a corn mill just 12 miles from the Grand\u2063 Forks Air Force \u2062Base. The proposed $700 million plant would have created\u200b jobs but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/company-suspected-of-china-ties-sues-farmers-over-land-sale-around-air-force-base\/\" title=\"Chinese-linked company sues farmers over land sale near Air Force base.\">raised \u200bsignificant\u2064 national security concerns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-dakotans-take-matters-in-their-own-hands-block-chinese-mill-near-military-base\/\" title=\"North Dakotans Take Matters In Their Own Hands, Block Chinese Mill Near Military Base\">proposed project represents<\/a>\u2063 a significant \u2063threat to national security with both near and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-were-on-a-mission-advocacy-groups-behind-push-to-save-womens-sports-campaign-against-trans-surgeries-for-minors\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: \u2018We\u2019re On A Mission\u2019: Advocacy Groups Behind Push To Save Women\u2019s Sports Campaign Against Trans Surgeries For Minors\">long-term risks<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boil-water-notice-goes-out-in-texas-capital-amidst-severe-winter-weather\/\" title=\"Boil Water Notice Goes Out In Texas Capital Amidst Severe Winter Weather\">significant impacts<\/a> to our operations in the area,&#8221; warned U.S. Air Force Assistant Secretary Andrew P. \u2063Hunter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Committee on Foreign Investment in\u200d the\u2062 United\u2063 States (CFIUS) considered the acquisition filing by Fufeng Group but concluded \u200bthat it did not have jurisdiction.\u200b However, the Department of Defense expressed clear concerns \u200cabout the project&#8217;s potential impact on \u200dnational security.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;With regard to Fufeng, if you\u2019re going\u200d to strategically decouple, that means we don\u2019t want their investment,&#8221; said Senator\u2064 Kevin Cramer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>farmers, alleging that they artificially inflated the sale price of the 50,000 acres of land near a California Air Force base. Flannery Associates, suspected of having ties to Communist China, has invested around $800 million in purchasing land surrounding Travis Air Force base, located northeast of San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1987762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-1987761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1987761","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=1987761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}