Chinese-Owned Trailer Park Near US Nuclear Bomber Base: Report

Trailer Park Acquisition and National Security Concerns

• 📌 A report details a Chinese-owned trailer park located next to Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, which houses the US's largest fleet of B2 bombers.
• 💡 The ownership is concerning because the trailer park is less than a mile from the runway, meaning US B2 bombers would take off over Chinese-owned land in the event of a war.
• ⚠️ The shell companies used to conceal the ownership trace back to a convicted fraudster with alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

Legislative Action and Oversight Failures

• 🚀 Congressman Mark Alford discusses his proposed American Land and Property Protection Act, which aims to prevent citizens and companies from adversarial nations like China, Iran, and Russia from owning property in the US.
• 🔍 The current governor of Missouri issued an executive order in January 2024 prohibiting foreign adversarial nations from owning property within 10 miles of military bases, but Alford believes this is insufficient.
• 📉 Alford criticizes the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS), stating they were not doing their job under the Biden administration, and that this oversight failure also occurred during the Trump administration.
• 🎯 Whiteman Air Force Base was not initially on CFIUS's list of bases for scrutiny, despite housing part of the nuclear triad.

Calls for Enhanced Scrutiny and Action

• 🧐 The former commander of the base was unaware of the trailer park's existence, highlighting a significant intelligence and oversight gap.
• ⏳ Alford suggests that CFIUS needs to step up its game and proposes reviewing past transactions, potentially from the last 10 years, not just present and future ones.
• ✈️ The base is set to become home to the B-21 Raider in the future, which will exponentially increase the size of the force and make the Chinese investment even more valuable.