Tea at Trianon: China's Purchase of American Land

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Thursday, August 4, 2022

China's Purchase of American Land

From Sara Carter:

Sara Joined ‘Hannity’ to discuss thee concerning information that should terrify all Americans, which is that China has purchased almost 200,000 acres of America farmland; 300 of which is near an Air Force Base which boards “some of the nation’s most sensitive drone technology.”
Sara Joined ‘Hannity’ to discuss thee concerning information that should terrify all Americans, which is that China has purchased almost 200,000 acres of America farmland; 300 of which is near an Air Force Base which boards “some of the nation’s most sensitive drone technology.”

“That should concern every American because I doubt we’re allowed to buy land in China, are we?” Hannity asked Carter. “No, we cannot Sean” which is why the federal government is investigating “massive land grabs by the Chinese.”
Carter explains that as of March, businesses with ties to the Chinese Communist government, had purchased $6.1 billion of land over the 12 months beforehand. Carter gives one specific example of land along the southern border which was purchased by a former Chinese military official which surrounds an Air Base.

But the biggest purchase being discussed was bought in Montana near a nuclear arsenal. (Read more.)

From Just the News:

The resurgence of concern over alleged Chinese espionage through Huawei comes as Congress, the FBI, and the Pentagon warn that the threat posed by China to the U.S. and its allies is growing across the board and could reach a fever pitch in the foreseeable future.

Federal officials quietly killed the construction of a Chinese garden on one of the highest points in Washington, D.C. just two miles from the U.S. Capitol after counterintelligence agents became concerned the $100 million project was a way for China to increase its spying capabilities inside the U.S., according to a new CNN report.

The decision to cancel the garden was part of a sweeping, yearslong U.S. counterintelligence effort to investigate Chinese espionage on American soil — an effort that's found a pattern of attempts to install Chinese-made Huawei equipment atop cell towers near U.S. military bases in the rural Midwest.

According to CNN, the FBI determined this equipment was capable of capturing and disrupting Defense Department communications — including those used by U.S. Strategic Command, which oversees the country's nuclear weapons. (Read more.)