Chinese firm: Obama, U.S. discriminating against us

BEIJING The Chinese company suing President Obama for blocking its planned wind farm projects in Oregon accused the U.S. leader and his government of discrimination Thursday and warned that the case would deter Chinese investment in the United States.

Last month, Mr. Obama blocked Ralls Corp.'s plan to build four wind farms near a U.S. Navy base, after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States concluded it posed security risks. It was the first time a president stepped in to block such a foreign business deal since 1990, when President George H.W. Bush scuttled the sale of a manufacturer to a Chinese agency.

Company bosses denied that the project posed security risks and said the U.S. was discriminating against the firm because it was Chinese. They filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government last month, and added Mr. Obama's name as a defendant earlier this month.

• Obama sued by Chinese firm for blocking project

Ralls Corp. CEO Wu Jialiang told a news conference Thursday that his company "would never do anything that threatens U.S. national security."

Ralls Corp, is an associated enterprise of Sany Group, the largest construction machinery manufacturer in China.

Sany alleges that the U.S. investment committee and Mr. Obama have exceeded their authority and deprived Sany of its private property rights without legal procedures. It also says U.S. officials provided no evidence to show the project threatened American national security and that they emphasized the Chinese character of Sany Group and its Ralls Corp.'s shareholders, violating "the equal rights protected by the Constitution."

"Although a relatively small case, it connects to the fundamental faith of Chinese investors who are looking forward to investing in the U.S. as well as millions of entrepreneurs all over the world," said Wu. "I firmly believe to mishandle this delicate matter will cause the U.S. thousands of lost job opportunities."

"At the same time, we have full faith in winning this lawsuit," he added.

U.S. government officials have said the lawsuit has no merit, and that they would "vigorously" dispute the case.

[eeplayer]

Americans can never afford to lose, right? You take it for granted that your value is always correct, and you have been this ignorant for years. What's wrong if China is someday stronger than U.S.? You just cannot afford to admit that you are sometimes wrong. And the fact is that, you always you are doing the right thing, and later you feel sorry. What's the point?? Being strong does not mean you are overwhelmingly correct.

[Jaylah54200]

hicks76 says:
China is an enemy of the US..their companies are enemies of the US...keep them the hell off of American soil.

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Then we've sold our soul to our "enemy." Loans from China are the only things keeping this country afloat right now.

[Jaylah54200]

And Romney wants to whine about Obama being "soft" on China.

Let's see.....Romney outsourced millions of jobs to them.

Obama won't let them build a wind farm right next to a US Naval base.

Who's "soft" on China?

[dodinyc]

China needs to recognize that what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

[Colt4542]

Why does our government permit any foreign country to purchase land or infrastructure in the US? The article does not say but alludes to the Chinese owning the property (land) and denial of their construction project deprives them of the use of their land. How about plant strawberries?

[hypnotoad72]

Ask the corporate lobbyists that bought government that question.

[tsigili]

Obama has done too LITTLE to curb China, within our own borders, much less with the volume of bad products being imported into the U.S., including totally unsafe human and pet food products!

Our government has been largely irresponsible in the handling of relations with China, and with stopping dangerous food products.

[hypnotoad72]

And other products, like drywall, computer software, computer hardware...

BTW: Why did previous presidents open the door to this nightmare in the first place?

BTW: Do you think Rmoney will really put his foot down? If so, please provide detailed proof, notarized, since few will blindly believe Romeny. It will take a lot to get people to believe Romney.

[lifeduringwartime]

I live near thousands of turbines and even helped erect them. When struck by lightning the blade "explodes" for lack of a better word and parts can fly quite a distance and could actually cause turbulence for the area surrounding them. Good call Mr. O.

[1stlttightwad]

Good call for sure..but in the back of my mind I wonder if Obama was irked that none of his "bundlers" were invited to "invest" in another soon to fail "green investment."

[Jaylah54200]

You know, when struck by lightning, a lot of things "explode."

I was sitting in my apartment (part of a large, old house), reading the Sunday paper, one morning while I was in college, and there was an electrical storm going on.

All of the sudden there was a huge BOOM, a chimney cap that had long since been plastered over and nobody even knew was there anymore came exploding across the room, and my cat jumped off the couch with me and flew across the room, into the bedroom and under the bed without her paws ever touching the floor.

I called the landlord to tell him that I thought the building must have been hit by lightening. He said, yes, it had. The chimney had exploded ... which he knew because the next door neighbors had been sitting in their sun-room drinking their coffee and had watched it happen.

I got off the phone, went to the door to look and sure enough: there were exploded bricks all over the place.

I've known people who've had their televisions explode when their house got hit by lightning.

So the fact that wind turbine blades explode when struck by lightning is really no reason to continue to pollute our atmosphere until the human race dies out.

[wennd2834]

We don't need to be doing business with China.

[hypnotoad72]

The "free market" and "global economy" would say differently.

[nancy_naive]

Let's see,...

Pacific super power seeks to get close to US Navy base...

Hmmmm, where have I heard that before??

[gulfwarvet94]

Good how about having a company here in our country do the work.....:)