IMAGINING THE FUTURE:
Selling PIECES of America to China:
Treason by any other name--

By Barbara H. Peterson
http://farmwars.info/?p=6247
from Farm Wars, the website

Let's quit being polite and call this maneuver by corporate governments
exactly what it is 'treason. Nothing more, nothing less. Selling off
pieces of America to a foreign government so that government can plant a
sovereign city inside our country that is not subject to our laws
amounts to treason.

Thanks to the trillions of dollars that the Chinese have made flooding
our shores with cheap products, China is now in a position of tremendous
economic power. So what is China going to do with all of that money? One
thing that they have decided to do is to buy up pieces of the United
States and set up 'special economic zones' inside our country from which
they can continue to extend their economic domination. One of these
'special economic zones' would be just south of Boise, Idaho and the
Idaho government is eager to give it to them. China National Machinery
Industry Corporation (Sinomach for short) plans to construct a
'technology zone' south of Boise Airport which would ultimately be up to
50 square miles in size. The Chinese Communist Party is the majority
owner of Sinomach, so the 10,000 to 30,000 acre 'self-sustaining city'
that is being planned would essentially belong to the Chinese
government. The planned 'self-sustaining city' in Idaho would include
manufacturing facilities, warehouses, retail centers and large numbers
of homes for Chinese workers. Basically it would be a slice of communist
China dropped right into the middle of the United States. (End of
America)

What Does Special Economic Zone 'SEZ Mean?

A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a geographical region that has economic
and other laws that are more free-market-oriented than a country's
typical or national laws. 'Nationwide' laws may be suspended inside a
special economic zone' In the People's Republic of China, Special
Economic Zones were founded by the central government under Deng
Xiaoping in the early 1980s. The most successful Special Economic Zone
in China, Shenzhen, has developed from a small village into a city with
a population over 10 million within 20 years. India has also played a
significant role in the founding and establishment of Special Economic
Zones. It has the largest outsourcing industry in Asia. (Wikipedia)

So, if China gets its way in Idaho, we will have sections of America
belonging to a communist foreign government whose residents and the
corporations that employ them do not have to abide by our national laws.
The term 'sovereign immunity' comes to mind.

Sovereign immunity, or crown immunity, is a type of immunity that in
common law jurisdictions traces its origins from early English law.
Generally speaking it is the doctrine that the sovereign or state cannot
commit a legal wrong and is immune from civil suit or criminal
prosecution'(Wikipedia)

Not only will people living in this country be exempt from our laws, but
the land will be designated a 'free trade zone.'

Or, a "region where a group of countries has agreed to reduce or
eliminate trade barriers.[2] Free trade zones can be defined as labor
intensive manufacturing centers that involve the import of raw materials
or components and the export of factory products. The world's first Free
Trade Zone was established in Shannon, Co. Clare, Ireland Shannon Free
Zone.[3] (Wikipedia)

And just whom do you think this special economic zone, or 'labor
intensive manufacturing center,' will be employing? Those who live in
its jurisdiction, and those who follow its laws. Not our laws, but
China's. Do you think that anyone other than a Chinese national will
live in this zone? If you do, I've got some oceanfront property in
Arizona to sell you. Do you think that the pay for jobs in the zone will
be equivalent to America's pay scale? Is China's? No. And China's
standard will exist in the zone.

This is not a boom to Idaho, but a death knell for those who are rapidly
losing jobs to overseas outsourcing, only this will be so much more
convenient for the mega-corporations. Just import China to America, make
this little piece of China exempt from our national laws, and get away
with what you got away with in China, sans the travel time. If this
isn't an end-run around national laws that benefit we the people, I
don't know what is. Change from the inside out. If Mohammed can't go to
the mountain, just bring the mountain to Mohammed and declare it
sovereign territory.

Corporations setting up in a zone may be given tax breaks as an
incentive. Usually, these zones are set up in underdeveloped parts of
the host country; the rationale is that the zones will attract employers
and thus reduce poverty and unemployment, and stimulate the area's
economy. These zones are often used by multinational corporations to set
up factories to produce goods (such as clothing or shoes). (Wikipedia)

Reduce poverty and unemployment? Let's take a look at what really goes
on inside the zone:

Labor Abuse or 'life is cheap, workers cheaper' zeitgeist

In addition to real estate speculation, zones also produced other
problems. Ironically for an avowedly communist regime, abuse of labor is
rampant in Chinese SEZs [ICFTU 2003]. Seven million people out of
Shenzhen's total population of 12 million are migrant workers, with
almost no legal or social protection [French 2006].

1992 data for the Guangdong province, home of Shenzhen, shows very high
death rates among industrial workers and more than 500,000 child
labourers --- a phenomenon which had been greatly reduced in
post-revolutionary China [Weil 1996]. In 2003, at least half the firms
in Shenzhen owed their employees wage arrears [ICFTU 2003], and at least
one-third of Chinese zone workers received less than minimum wage
[Jayanthakumaran 2003]. The labour turnover rate is more than 10 per
cent [French 2006]. Indeed, Shenzhen workers are so desperate that
despite the lack of any independent unions, more than 10,000 wildcat
strikes took place in 2006 alone [ibid].

This labour abuse is accompanied, unsurprisingly, by crime. Shenzhen now
has a crime rate that is nine times higher than that of Shanghai, and is
notorious for the trafficking of women and sex trade [Goswami 1997].
Relaxed customs have also led to large-scale smuggling; two of the
original zones, Shantou and Xiamen, were hit by massive tax and
smuggling frauds in 2000 and 1999 respectively [Business China 2006].

Could you live on Chinese wages?

As different parts of China have very different standards of living,
China does not set one minimum wage for the entire nation. Instead, the
task of setting minimum wages is delegated to the local governments.
Each province, municipality, or region sets its own minimum wage in
accordance with its own local conditions.

The table or chart at this page (see: http://farmwars.info/?p=6247)  lists the
minimum monthly wages for some of the provinces or regions in China. The
US$ column is based on the 20th April 2011 conversion rate of US $1 =
RMBĀ„6.52. The table is correct as of 20th April 2011. (Wikipedia)

BASICALLY 200 a month is an over the top wage!

See also a more complete article on wages there:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_in_China_(PRC)
Source: Wikipedia

But what goes on in the zone stays in the zone. Or does it? Well, sort
of. Companies can move workers to and from any free trade zone in the
country, and according to Marti Oakley of the PPJ Gazette,

Inside these free trade zones they are required to hire only a maximum
of 10 US citizens. They bring these people in on EB-5 visas that avoid
customs and immigration. After two years if they haven't been in any
trouble they are given citizenship and may move anywhere in the country.

Just what type of economic boom is this sell-off of American soil to a
foreign government supposed to be to the people of Idaho? And do you
actually think that the people living in these zones will be buying
anything outside of the zone? At these wages, could you? Live in the
zone, work in the zone, play in the zone, and do what China SEZ.

So the question is: What will you do when you are surrounded by Chinese
zones that are not subject to our national laws right outside your front
door if/when China decides that America is no longer its 'friend?' 2011

YOUR TAKE ON THIS: 1.) It's natural that powerful nations colonize
weaker ones. Didn't we do it to Guatemala and about l00 other countries
in the period 1900 til current time?

2) That's capitalism baby. Winner takes the pot. Dollar rules. Wall Street
ran America into the ground, our POLS let them do it!

3.) The real Danger is Chinese subversion of the military as American takeovers or colonial empires did in about l00 third world countries and are still doing. Refer to divided loyalty of Pakistan's military! Osama BinLadin lived on their "WESTPOINT's front lawn. Since day we killed him, we did find out PAKIS KNEW HE WAS THERE and SAUDIS PAID HIS RENT. Of course unions and the oligarchs are bought up too. And then, we have a 5th column of many millions of Chinese here. over a half million in each big city in America. They might not go willingly but they would be prone to being used.

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