China owns property near our military bases.

[Yvonne Smith]

I do not think that China (or any foreign country) should be owning land in the United States , and especially not where they can spy on our military bases so easily. This map shows where our military bases in the US are at, and also shows how close to the bases China owns property .
Not only that, but China also has businesses inside of over 80 military bases now.

China is the owner of GNC Nutrition Headquarters, and they have stores in our military bases nationwide. This means that they are swiping credit cards, and gathering other private information abut our military personnel on all of these bases when they buy vitamins and GNC.
Of course, this means that we are buying Chinese vitamins from there, too, and who knows what quality control they have with these Chinese companies that make the vitamins.
This is one of the reasons that President Trump wants us to make our own vitamins and prescription meds right here in America , where we have good quality control of the product.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

I wonder what a similar map of Canada looks like?

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I can’t find an actual map, @Jacob Petersheim . What I found was that the Crown owns about 89% of Canadian land, but of what is owned privately, most of it belong s to a Chinese corporation.
I remember reading that most of Canada in not inhabited, or at least very sparsely, and most Canadians are in the part that is next to the USA, so any land and businesses that China owns in Canada would be in that part of Canada.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

I wonder how much more land they have snapped up and what their intentions for it may be under that "Belt and Road" push? I'd imagine that their Panamanian presence was at least partly the result of that.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

Welcome to reality, where anyone can buy anything they want if they have to money to pay for it.

 

[Mary Stetler]

I do not think that China (or any foreign country) should be owning land in the United States , and especially not where they can spy on our military bases so easily. This map shows where our military bases in the US are at, and also shows how close to the bases China owns property .
Not only that, but China also has businesses inside of over 80 military bases now.

China is the owner of GNC Nutrition Headquarters, and they have stores in our military bases nationwide. This means that they are swiping credit cards, and gathering other private information abut our military personnel on all of these bases when they buy vitamins and GNC.
Of course, this means that we are buying Chinese vitamins from there, too, and who knows what quality control they have with these Chinese companies that make the vitamins.
This is one of the reasons that President Trump wants us to make our own vitamins and prescription meds right here in America , where we have good quality control of the product.

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I believe it was the governor of Arkansas that made it illegal for China to own farm land. But the Chinese switched to a sort of 'land laundering' scheme where cover companies did the buying with China backing. I think Arkansas' AG sued China for something (back taxes) and no one showed up, so China lost the case and the state put a lien on the land for the taxes See? Government can be good for something.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

People are now talking about revoking the visa for communist Chinese students who are here and in our colleges. In 2017, China passed a law door those students to actively seek out information about our military and our bases, and anything else they can find out. Here is a part of that law:

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) subjects its citizens, wherever they reside, to the sweeping dictates of the 2017 National Intelligence Law. Most notably, Article 7 of that law mandates that all Chinese citizens and organizations must, upon request, support and cooperate with state intelligence work. There are no geographic exceptions. There are no due process requirements. And there is no meaningful ability for a citizen, once contacted by the state, to say "no."

Over the years, some of these people have been found and sent back home, but with the trade situation happening now with China, it seems like it is time we remove as many of these people from America as we are able to find and deport back home.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

This is one of the reasons that President Trump wants us to make our own vitamins and prescription meds right here in America , where we have good quality control of the product.

If he wants to do that, and it would be a good thing, he's got to convince American companies that have been doing all their manufacturing overseas for decades now to go back to manufacturing their products in the US again, which would cost them a ton of money. It's unrealistic that they would want to do that.

So I don't see that happening until they figure out a way to stick US tax payers with the bill. That's the way it always is, tax payers always pay the bill for what the rich people want, one way or another.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

If he wants to do that, and it would be a good thing, he's got to convince American companies that have been doing all their manufacturing overseas for decades now to go back to manufacturing their products in the US again, which would cost them a ton of money. It's unrealistic that they would want to do that.

So I don't see that happening until they figure out a way to stick US tax payers with the bill. That's the way it always is, tax payers always pay the bill for what the rich people want, one way or another.

I am just now reading that Novartis, one of our large drug manufacturing companies is planning on opening up even more facilities here in the United States. With President Trump putting the high tariff on anything coming from China, probably a lot more companies will soon be moving back to America to manufacture right here in this country.
Every day, I am reading about more companies who are doing that, and foreign countries who want to come here and make their products.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

That's great and will save anyone on any of the meds they make a good bit of money. But just so you know, it's not an American company. Novartis AG is a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical corporation based in Basel, Switzerland.

The things you learn playing video games.

 

[Susannah]

I am just now reading that Novartis, one of our large drug manufacturing companies is planning on opening up even more facilities here in the United States. With President Trump putting the high tariff on anything coming from China, probably a lot more companies will soon be moving back to America to manufacture right here in this country.
Every day, I am reading about more companies who are doing that, and foreign countries who want to come here and make their products.

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Great! I hope they won’t be the only medical company moving in

 

[Yvonne Smith]

That's great and will save anyone on any of the meds they make a good bit of money. But just so you know, it's not an American company. Novartis AG is a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical corporation based in Basel, Switzerland.

The things you learn playing video games.

I was thinking that the name sounded familiar, but I do not pay much attention to drug companies. Now that you mentioned that is a Swiss company, I remember reading about it. I do not know what else they make, but they are the ones who make that new Ozempic medication that everyone is talking about.
While I do know that some people need their medications, and so we have to have them; sometimes, we could help ourselves just by living a healthier life and eating healthier food.
I have read some bad things about Ozempic, and am not happy that they are going to make it here, although people are going to take it no matter where it is manufactured.
But other companies will also be making medications here, and I think that it is good if medications are made here in the USA.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

And if you can, getting plenty of exercise. I haven't tried to ride my bike since the Covid hospital run, my bike needs a major tune up after almost two and a half years in storage. But while I would like to, I'm not sure if my balance and coordination is going to allow me to pull that off.

I had our maintenance man take the tires off so I can take them to a bike shop and get some air, then we'll see if I can do it. My balance and coordination was bad enough before all that, but now it's way worse. Just this morning, I got out of bed, started to walk to the bathroom (which is all of 15 steps) and promptly slammed into the door frame. I hate doing that. It's sort of like you're a self driving car with bad programming...

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I can definitely understand the balance problems, and mine are worse, first thing in the morning, too. I enjoyed riding my bike back when I had one, but i have not had one in a lot of years now.
I tried one of the 3-wheel adult trikes, and it would work for me, except for the street where we live is dangerous.

There are people who just blast down the street, and a little old lady on a 3-wheel trike would probably be run over if I went very far down the road. My husband saved me when I almost crashed the bike, and dragged me out of the way of the oncoming car. After that, i sold the trike.
But if we lived somewhere that was not such a busy street, i would like to have one again, and I think i could still ride it.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

I think all city streets are dangerous. Look at bike lanes on busy streets... That is absolutely the worst place to ride a bike. (Or a trike.) That's why I always do some things for personal safety. Such as wearing orange gear for visibility and when we were riding across country, Gary and I would ride on the opposite side of the road, facing oncoming traffic when we were on freeways. That being illegal for some stupid reason, we had a number of discussions with police about it. Some of them were quite interesting, to say the least.

One Officer in Oklahoma tried to tell us that if you get hit by an oncoming vehicle that is coming towards you at 70 MPH, it's better to be going the same direction. I said "Why? Dead is dead, does it really matter how you died? If you ride in the same direction, you can't see what is coming up behind you. But when you ride facing traffic, you can see what's ahead of you and (hopefully) be able to get out of the way if something is coming towards you."

He saw the logic in that and said "Ok, it's two miles to the city limits. Ride carefully." We took that to mean "Ok, fine, you can ride on this side of the highway, but get out of this town."

We rode all the way from Chicago to Santa Monica, California on the opposite side of the Interstates. Once we were on two lane roads it wasn't as much of a problem, but just to be on the safe side, we would check with Country Sheriffs when we came into their county to see how they felt about it. Only San Francisco police said we couldn't ride opposing traffic on Highway 1. But they said it was legal, so we rode on sidewalks.

 

[Marie Mallory]

I can’t find an actual map, @Jacob Petersheim . What I found was that the Crown owns about 89% of Canadian land, but of what is owned privately, most of it belong s to a Chinese corporation.
I remember reading that most of Canada in not inhabited, or at least very sparsely, and most Canadians are in the part that is next to the USA, so any land and businesses that China owns in Canada would be in that part of Canada.

Our leaders literally sold us out. Nothing new really.

 

[Marie Mallory]

People are now talking about revoking the visa for communist Chinese students who are here and in our colleges. In 2017, China passed a law door those students to actively seek out information about our military and our bases, and anything else they can find out. Here is a part of that law:

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) subjects its citizens, wherever they reside, to the sweeping dictates of the 2017 National Intelligence Law. Most notably, Article 7 of that law mandates that all Chinese citizens and organizations must, upon request, support and cooperate with state intelligence work. There are no geographic exceptions. There are no due process requirements. And there is no meaningful ability for a citizen, once contacted by the state, to say "no."

Over the years, some of these people have been found and sent back home, but with the trade situation happening now with China, it seems like it is time we remove as many of these people from America as we are able to find and deport back home.

China isn't the only one, our campuses look like NATO learning centers. To add insult to injury we're paying for it.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

China isn't the only one, our campuses look like NATO learning centers. To add insult to injury we're paying for it.

Actually, the Trump administration is working on that, and stopping the Hamas-supporting foreign students who are here with a college visa. Any person found involved in any of the campus protests who is here on a visa is now having their visa revoked and they are being deported right away. Plus, President Trump is stopping any federal funds to the colleges who are allowing the violent protests and campus riots; so even the colleges are clamping down on this behavior now.
So it is stopping, and we are no longer paying for it to happen. All good news, in my opinion, @Marie Mallory .

 

[Marie Mallory]

Actually, the Trump administration is working on that, and stopping the Hamas-supporting foreign students who are here with a college visa. Any person found involved in any of the campus protests who is here on a visa is now having their visa revoked and they are being deported right away. Plus, President Trump is stopping any federal funds to the colleges who are allowing the violent protests and campus riots; so even the colleges are clamping down on this behavior now.
So it is stopping, and we are no longer paying for it to happen. All good news, in my opinion, @Marie Mallory .

I understand this too, and so glad Trump was elected just in time I hope to save the country.
Starting with Hamas is also good, but we have all kinds of foreign students now and they were getting student loams. And many Americans like ANTIFA ,BLM and others. I just hope the next election is a good one too.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

We just deported some guy from India for a criminal charge , (I think he was scamming elderly people) as well as it looks like Trump might revoke all of the Chinese visas, so it is not just the ones from the Muslim countries who are having the visa revoked, it is anyone from any foreign country who causes any kind of trouble, or is arrested for something.
It is not going to happen overnight, but they will be deported.

Any person here that does not have a current visa is also going to be deported, as well as subject to large fines if they do not self-deport, and that is not just for the Hispanic people, it is for people who might have had a student visa and it expired. So, even if they have not been arrested , or they are not part of the protests, if they do not have a legal visa, they are going to have to leave America.