China invests $1 billion in New York City - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Chinese companies and entrepreneurs have quietly invested $1 billion in New York City over the last year. In the process, they have snagged parts of major city icons, like the Empire State Building and the Tappan Zee bridge. From the New York Times: [QUOTE]"Investors from China are snapping up luxury apartments and planning to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on commercial and residential projects like Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn. Chinese companies have signed major leases at the Empire State Building and at 1 World Trade Center, which is the centerpiece of the rebuilding at ground zero."[/QUOTE] In the late '80s, a similar phenomenon that occurred involving Japan that caused quite a stir. Sony Corporation bought Columbia Pictures in 1989, and the same year, Mitsubishi paid $846 million for 51 percent of the Rockefeller Group, owner of Rockefeller Center. How were they received? This NY Times headline from Nov. 3, 1989, hints at the anxiety and xenophobia that transpired: "Japan Buys the Center of New York." People were worried about foreigners having such a strong stake in major cultural symbols, and they weren't shy about saying as much. But this time, with the U.S. economy in the tubes, most Americans are singing a different tune. Most welcome the Chinese investment as a welcome boost. After all, China has been investing all over the globe (Brazil, Africa, Europe, even the Caribbean). It only follows it would eventually settle on New York.[/QUOTE] Source: [url]http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/11/china-invests-1-billion-in-new-york-city/[/url]

I for one welcome our new Chin- wait oh thanks i guess

"Every little bit helps."

They're going to take over New York... Ron brilding at a time! muwhaha [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTSQozWP-rM[/media]

time to get ready to defend my home against goldsellers..

Seems logical. Considering most of the immigrants that come from China arrive in New York.

This must be some kind of a trick to destroy us again.

Commie cash is poisonous.

I feel uncomfortable about China buying up bits of America. We would have never allowed the Soviets to do such a thing so I don't know why we the Chinese do it.

[QUOTE=cqbcat;31695174]I feel uncomfortable about China buying up bits of America. We would have never allowed the Soviets to do such a thing so I don't know why we the Chinese do it.[/QUOTE] because your economy is fucked and it's not the 70s anymore dumbshit.

Yes because you are totally at a cold war with China. Edit: Ninjad.

I don't know how I feel about this. [editline]12th August 2011[/editline] Being a New York native, I can guarantee a lot of people I know aren't going to be happy with this when they hear about it, regardless of it's benefits.

I need to buy some shares in the New York City Corporation sometime. I wonder how much they go for.

[QUOTE=Arachnidus;31695340]I don't know how I feel about this. [editline]12th August 2011[/editline] Being a New York native, I can guarantee a lot of people I know aren't going to be happy with this when they hear about it, regardless of it's benefits.[/QUOTE] Probably just racism :smile:

[QUOTE=Falchion;31695547]Probably just racism :smile:[/QUOTE] Probably.

[QUOTE=cqbcat;31695174]I feel uncomfortable about China buying up bits of America. We would have never allowed the Soviets to do such a thing so I don't know why we the Chinese do it.[/QUOTE] Because China aren't an enemy. Anyhow, in the 70s the USA secretly struck up wheat deals with the USSR; the nuclear enemy. All the while dropping bombs shoeless, undernourished Cambodians

They want to buy us. :tinfoil:

You guys understand investments are expected to return right? It's not going to return to the US obviously.

China's pretty bro

My pessimistic take on this is that China are trying to control as many businesses as they can to suck the money out of the other countries and inject it in their own. This way they have the power to only hire chinese men as they are private companies and make deals at extraordinary low prices when importing materials from china while other local businesses don't. They will eventually have businesses that will have more power than the government and make America and everywhere else where they invested eat shit and die. Then they will eat gold while we drown our heads in rancy puddles of vomit to try to avoid the feeling of hunger for a few more hours and that is when the tables will have turned.

If China's government wasn't an oppressive bunch of dicks who held their own history from their people, they would be much better in the eyes of the world.

[QUOTE=sami-elite;31696055]You guys understand investments are expected to return right? It's not going to return to the US obviously.[/QUOTE] Unless all of the workers are Chinese and unless China stops importing to us entirely, yes it will.

Secret purchases by outside markets. I read a very interesting book about it: [IMG]http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?pid=avimage&iid=igOps87vCZNQ[/IMG] A good read if you ever feel like picking up one. It's not uncommon today that things are being bought away due to the economy.

[QUOTE=Doozle;31695937]Because China aren't an enemy. Anyhow, in the 70s the USA secretly struck up wheat deals with the USSR; the nuclear enemy. All the while dropping bombs shoeless, undernourished Cambodians[/QUOTE] I think they are the enemy.

The Chinese need to talk to the Japanese and ask how buying America worked out for them in the '80s(hint: not so well).

Bunch of gay Chinese people looking to get married.

[QUOTE=Zarjk;31693687]time to get ready to defend my home against goldsellers..[/QUOTE] Ok we get it you play WoW.

Awesome that China is helping, I thought they were gonna buy NYC at first.

Excellent, all according to plan.

communist scum