North Dakotans Take Matters In Their Own Hands, Block Chinese Mill Near Military Base

North Dakota citizens saw the Chinese plan to build a cornmill near a sensitive military base.

The Grand Forks City Council decided unanimously to prevent Fufeng Group, a Chinese food producer from building the mill, 12 miles away from Grand Forks Air Force Base, in the wake of what was believed to have been a Chinese spy satellite being brought down. Last spring three North Dakotans sold the land for millions of dollars; the town’s mayor, Brandon Bochenski, It should be noted The proposed plant, estimated at $700 million, would create more jobs than 200. However it was also acknowledged that there were national security issues.

“The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) considered an October 2022 filing by the Fufeng Group to acquire certain assets in the vicinity of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Grand Forks Air Force Base is the center of military activities related to both air and space operations,” U.S. Air Force Assistant Secretary Andrew P. Hunter Warned John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer, North Dakota senators, in January

“While CFIUS concluded that it did not have jurisdiction, the Department’s view is unambiguous: the proposed project represents a significant threat to national security with both near and long-term risks of significant impacts to our operations in the area,” He concluded.

“With regard to Fufeng, if you’re going to strategically decouple, that means we don’t want their investment,” Cramer last June.

Prior to that, Air Force Major Jeremy Fox (April 1, 2008) I wrote a memo stating, “some of the most sensitive elements of Grand Forks exist with the digital uplinks and downlinks inherent with unmanned air systems and their interaction with space based assets,” adding, “if proximal access were given to our adversaries, and their collections were directed at us, it would present a costly national security risk causing grave damage to (the) United States’ strategic advantages.”

“Passive collection of those signals would be undetectable, as the requirements to do so would merely require ordinary antennas tuned to the right collecting frequencies. This introduces a grave vulnerability to our Department of Defense installations and is incredibly compromising to US National Security,” He continued.

The Monday meeting featured comments by members of the public prior to the vote. One citizen Snapped, “Why would an individual, or individuals, or a company be involved with somebody that is aggressive to the United States, especially if they’re an adversary against us? The only conclusion I come is up with is money, black mail prestige, power, sedition, treason. I’m not understanding, why would you advocate for it? How can you defend yourself against a foreign enemy against the United States? Those are questions that need to be asked.”

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