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Speaker 0 discusses a Daily Caller report claiming a US nuclear bomber fleet shares a fence with a trailer park linked to Chinese intelligence. A Chinese couple allegedly bought the trailer park and used multiple shell companies to conceal their identities. The park is in Missouri, near Whiteman Air Force Base, where America’s largest B-2 bomber fleet operates and where the B-2s would take off over land now owned by Chinese interests. The shell companies reportedly trace back to a convicted fraudster with alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker 1 confirms Whiteman Air Force Base is in their district and notes it is the home of the B-2 stealth bomber and soon the B-21 Raider, which will increase the base’s size. This, they say, makes the Chinese investment more valuable. They describe the transaction as occurring in 2017. In January 2024, Missouri Governor Mike Parson issued an executive order prohibiting citizens or companies from foreign adversarial nations from owning property within 10 miles of a Department of Defense base, and Speaker 1 says they sought to expand that with the American Land and Property Protection Act. The Act would state that if you are a member of a foreign adversarial nation—China, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, or Russia—neither a citizen nor a company of those nations can own property in the United States, including an outhouse. They argue that this should extend beyond specific states and bases.
Speaker 0 questions why the law wouldn’t prevent ownership by Chinese individuals who already own property in the US, such as condos, and mentions that there is a Department of Treasury committee known as CFIUS (Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States) that should review such acquisitions. They claim that under the Biden administration, CFIUS was not performing adequately, and that prior administrations also failed to do their job. They reference that CFIUS regulations were being developed but did not include certain bases on prior lists, prompting questions about why US military bases—one part of the nuclear triad—were not on the list for scrutiny. They list bases potentially affected by Chinese land purchases: Fort Bragg, Naval Air Station Norfolk, Wright-Patterson, and Whiteman Air Force Base.
Speaker 0 asks how to stop B-2 bombers from flying over Chinese-owned land immediately. Speaker 1 suggests leveraging CFIUS under the Treasury Department and notes their position on the Financial Services General Government Appropriations subcommittee to push action and oversight of CFIUS.