Joe Manchin questions China's promised $84 billion investment in Wv: 'Something doesn't make sense..

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Joe Manchin questions China’s promised $84 billion investment in West Virginia: ‘Something doesn’t make sense here’


https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/25/joe-manchin-questions-chinas-84-billion-investment-in-west-virginia.html


Published Thu, Jul 25 2019 5:14 PM EDTUpdated Thu, Jul 25 2019 6:53 PM EDT
Tucker Higgins



Key Points

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is raising alarm bells about an $83.7 billion investment in his home state pledged by China’s state-owned energy giant.
“When you put that in comparison to the state budget of West Virginia, our state budget only goes over $4 billion a year, so something doesn’t make sense here, and we cannot find out what their intent is,” he says.
The deal was announced in 2017 as part of $250 billion in business agreements reached between the U.S. and China in connection with President Donald Trump’s visit to the country..................................



Read more: West Virginia is still waiting on an $84 billion investment from China that was promised in 2017.................................

[Iliyah]

1. Joe, welcome to the Twlight Zone.

Matter of fact, where were you when McTurtle ignored WV's persons with "black lung" disease?

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. Joe can't have it both ways.

Something doesn’t make sense, eh?

Could it be that you fail to realize that your back door cousins, the Republican Party, lie at every turn? Nah!

[Botany]

2. Simple answer

Trump sold W.V. to China in order to pay off the billions that he owes them.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Should have followed Kentucky's lead...Russian money is more reliable.

[Possum Hunter1]

5. More Global Warming

I think its a real investment to actually mine lots of coal.
But it will be the mountain top removal method that devastates vast acreages, turning the mountain scenery into a series of barren mesas with huge lakes of mining debris. These scars will last forever.

But China needs coal and lots of it. And the poor folks living in WV have sold their mineral rights generations ago. Now they will be forced to flee the onslaught of the coal machine. 84 Billion will kill off whole counties. These counties will be depopulated even further with no future job potential. But hey, money to be made by the republicans. Theydon't care if its a communist country, just money money money.

[Possum Hunter1]

6. CHina China China

BTW, coal mining and burning is the second highest source of mercury in sea water. We can't eat too much carnivore fish because of all the mercury they contain.

The US doesn't contribute much anymore because of the rules to remove mercury, but China doesn't have such rules. They are the number one contributor to sea water mercury.

[JI7]

7. find out their intent ? it's pretty clear. look at what they have done to other countries

even their own country.