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^ Clearly Paul McKee's diabolical plan to make millions through the importing of Chinese spies into the US through added international freight traffic at St. Louis regional airports and processed through his soon-to-be announced NorthPark II development in North City. Can't you keep up??

jlblues wrote:Paul McKee letting them commie spies into our fair town and watchin' them murder our sheriff, burn our crops, loot our stores, stampede our people, and rape our cattle. (to paraphrase Blazing Saddles)



It doesn't matter what I post, that is the way phoaddict will read it.

I do see some strange flashes of light every once in a while, and find my self waking up on the floor in random bars saying some random phrases in chinese....but that's just it....



How do you know IM not a spy???



I agree, back on topic. Just don't got the energy for this one

Moorlander wrote:I don't think I understand the scope of the economic boom this could bring to the area. Anyone care to explain?

Saint Louis would become a crucial and primary link in the United States engaging in increased direct commerce with the world’s most dynamic, fastest-growing economy by scale and net transportation infrastructure development, contingent to the continued development of the Saint Louis Metropolitan Area as a clustered center of transportation logistics development.



This development would establish a solid base of operations for their distribution in the center of the United States. Note the developments involved in air shipping to Memphis with Federal Express and Louisville with UPS. Then relate them to making Lambert a center for East Asian aerial freight, including the continued and growing development of the Chinese aerial freight industry, both as private entities and as State-Owned Enterprises. With the ample tracts of developable land surrounding Lambert, as well as the relative non-utilization of the W-1W new runway, Saint Louis is well primed to establish itself as a great center for airborne logistics, and an ideal candidate for the world’s most powerful economy.



Such a relationship would also further the Metro area’s general growth for land-based and river-based shipping. While we are witnessing the growth of developments around I-255, such as those for Unilever and Hershey, we could further this growth on both sides of the river for general logistics across the US interstate highway system (for which we have multiple routes at the center of the country) while utilizing our natural river routes to further the development of shipment interests. Also, planes flying back to China would be best set to not fly out empty; we could expect an increase in products shipped there by air, including product made outside of StL and that made locally, possibly leading to increased manufacturing interests being established in StL for the sake of proximity to an international transportation hub.



With this development comes further economic integration between the various Chinese interests, including private business entities, and the business community of Saint Louis, leading to greater mutual awareness & interdependence as well as the lure for increased joint ventures between Saint Louis-based multinational corporations and their Chinese counterparts. As East Asian economic integration continues, we could expect to see such a development spread out to include South Korean, Indonesian, and Singaporean airborne shipping interests.



Net, such a partnership could mean a net increase in billions to the Saint Louis Metro Area’s economy.

jlblues wrote:Does anyone think we would allow a large Chinese operation to set up right next to Scott Air Force Base, using the same runways no less? Although all the spies could be good for our local economy I suppose...

1. I believe the initial hope would be to establish this network of business interests on the Missouri side to recognize increased taxation revenues from such operations. This could be an incredible boom to the City, as it still maintains control over the operations of the airport. Think of how much more money can be allocated to city schools, urban redevelopment, and fixing the potholes in the roads. While shipping centers in North Park would be in StL County, the City would still recognize revenues from the fees incumbent upon the rights of airplanes to land their craft on the Lambert runway, which could net very large figures indeed.



But mostly, as Southern IL is currently focused upon establishing international shipping relationships with Malaysia primarily, the utilization of Chinese aircraft upon Scott AFB runways is technically feasible although not likely as a course of strategic business planning.



2. Joking aside, and noting to the general naïveté apparent to the nature of international espionage, both corporate and governmental:

This is not going to lead to the primacy of Chinese spies coming over to see what goes on in Mascoutah, IL. While not wanting to divert the discussion any further into the facets of the intelligence gathering community, let me just say that this is not how spying takes place in the modern world, especially as Chinese interests are more into the utilization of resources to enhance their knowledge of strategic industry over Air Force Logistics. It’s Scott AFB, not Whiteman, and one would be better to out potential covert operations within the hiring practices conducted of non-US citizens into the financial services industry and technology-related sectors.



Note: As I had mentioned relative naïveté, it can best be displayed in how no one questioned the proximity of this potential development towards the headquarters of either GKN or Boeing’s Integrated Defense headquarters along Lambert.