((News) – if a billionaire Chinese businessman And his company quietly bought a commercial building in Nashua, New Hampshire to supposedly set up a waterworks. The deal was largely unnoticed. This changed when the purchase price was announced publicly.
The company, Nongfu Spring, owned by Zhong Shanshan, is China’s largest beverage company. The location is located next to the Pennichuck water system and enables the company to utilize local water for a beverage system. What the eyebrows raised is the puzzle why the company paid $ 67 million in cash for a property worth 15 million US dollars.
“It is very worrying to be connected to our water system in Pennichuck in our water system in Pennichuck,” Bob Looteau from Bob Lozeau told Nexstar. He said most people in Nashua don’t know about the sale before he happened.
State. Kevin AvardA Republican, whose district includes part of Nashua, shared his concerns.
“You have the airport here. You have our water supply you want to capture,” he said to Newsnation.
The building extends over 337,000 square feet and lies to 23 hectares. It is located near the airport in Nashua, several defense centers and a control center of the Federal Aviation Administration.
Lily Tang Williams fled communism in China and is Now runs for the congress in New Hampshire as a Republican.
“I researched what my first language is in English and mandarin and I was just shocked,” Williams told Newsnation.
“I tried to warn people,” she said. “Xi Jinping has a China dream, and its China dream is to utilize an invasion of Soft Power. Business. Education. Education.
She said China I don’t want her to discuss what she calls as a “invasion” pliable power “and the national security concerns in connection with projects such as the Nongfu Spring plant.
When asked what would happen if she spoke about it in China, she said: “I would disappear. I’m afraid when I go back and I go in, you won’t let me out. I would disappear.
The Nongfu spring expansion in Nashua is not the only Chinese investment. A few miles away, a Chinese investor bought the former campus of Daniel Webster College. The 50 hectare website was sold about $ 14 million about seven years ago, but is largely abandoned today. The mayor of Nashua, Jim Donchess, said that the investor paid twice as much as the property was worth.
She asked him why the Nongfu -Spring would pay more than four times the estimated value for the property through the water system: “It is very strange. I have no idea why they would do it.”
The mayor said he was not against the project and he does not believe that there are national security concerns. The city has it Pennichuck corporation Water system itself and the mayor said that the city would never consider selling the water company.
But like everyone else in Nashua, he still wonders why Nongfu Spring paid so much for property. “It is very puzzling why that would happen,” he said.
Nongfu Spring has not yet responded to news inquiries about comments.
