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For some in Thompson, N.Y., the idea seems like a dream — a potential financial and cultural windfall for the economically struggling region in the Catskill Mountains.
For others, however, it spells nothing but trouble — a “perfect storm of problems,” one skeptic noted.
Either way, U.S. immigration officials are reportedly weighing a plan from Chinese investors to create a “China City of America” just 20 minutes east of where the iconic Woodstock festival took place in 1969.
What is a “China City,” you ask?
It’s a 600-acre, multibillion-dollar “Chinese Disneyland,” the New York Post reports, that would be nestled by Yankee Lake in Sullivan County and contain an amusement park, mansions and a “Forbidden City” all constructed according to the principles of Feng Shui.
Image source: China City America website
More from the Post:
The place would feel like a trip to China just 90 miles outside New York city, as one area would mark parts of the Chinese Zodiac while another would have 16 buildings representing the major Chinese dynasties.
It also would contain offices for every province in China, according to Fox News.
If the proposed project happens, a federal program (EB-5) would grant visas to each foreign investor who plucks down $500,000, the Post noted.
But the Center for Immigration Studies, a conservative group, isn’t thrilled about the “China City,” claiming in an internal report “a charge from within the Chinese community that China City is a stalking horse for the Chinese communist government in Beijing.”
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