The threat of people and companies tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), and the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) inside the United States is a real problem. I have written about the danger of Chinese-owned farmlands near strategic U.S. military bases and facilities.
They pose a major cyber, electronic warfare, jamming, espionage, and even kinetic weapons threat to our bases that must be neutralized.
But now we learn that it isn’t just farmlands the Chinese are buying. Whiteman Air Force Base (AFB), in rural Missouri, which houses our fleet of B-2 Spirit nuclear stealth bombers, is directly adjacent to a foreign-owned property housing a trailer park linked to a convicted fraudster with CCP and Chinese intelligence ties.
This, according to a special report from The Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF).
Their investigation, supported by State Armor — a nonprofit focused on countering the CCP influence — shows that the Knob Noster Trailer Park is located less than a mile from the runway of “the world’s only nuclear-capable stealth bomber.”
The evidence they uncovered reveals that the property, which essentially shares a fence with the B-2 bomber base, was bought in 2017 and is owned by a web of shell companies traced back to disgraced Chinese tycoon and self-described former CCP intelligence “affiliate,” Miles Guo, via a Chinese couple living in Canada.
Guo is a notorious fraudster who was found guilty of orchestrating an over $1 billion fraud conspiracy in July 2024. He is awaiting sentencing on the fraud conviction. Esther Mei and Cheng Hu are members of the New Federal State of China (NFSC), a purported political movement to “take down” the CCP that was launched in 2017 by Guo.
The group’s servers appear to be based outside the U.S. and business filings show that Mei worked for a foreign investment firm with extensive ties to the Chinese government.
While NFSC appears to champion Guo as “the CCP’s number one enemy,” Guo’s repeated admission of ties with Chinese intelligence raises serious doubts. In a 2022 interview with The New Yorker, Guo, who used the code name “Wu Nan,” said that China’s MSS had tasked him with “handling things for them.”
During their fraud investigation in 2023, the FBI discovered gold PLA pins, 29 cell phones, a cell phone scrambler, and multiple passports on Guo’s U.S. properties.
The use of foreign citizens and shell companies is “classic Chinese intel ops” providing the CCP with a “thin veneer of legitimacy,” Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer, told the DCNF.
Wright, who now hosts The Wright Report, added:
There’s zero chance a Chinese couple from Canada rolled into Knob Noster and saw a strictly financial investment in a dumpy plot of land. This trailer park would hypothetically give Xi Jinping a range of options to wreak havoc. For example, certain spy tools can connect to the local grid and fry systems at Whiteman AFB. He might also house signals intelligence equipment like a StingRay to catch cell phone data of people on base and target them for later recruitment. He can also hide attack drones or even missiles in nearby storage units and otherwise benign-looking shipping containers, as we’ve seen in the war in Ukraine and Russia.
Meanwhile, Michael Lucci, founder and CEO of State Armor, told the DCNF:
China is pre-positioning assets across the U.S. in both the cyber and physical realm. They seek to be able to incapacitate us. Federal and state leaders should be rapidly assessing how China’s assets within the U.S. — including industrial, residential and commercial properties on top of agricultural land — will double for military use. China’s agents should be expelled accordingly.
The report continues:
“Beyond the obvious risk of photos and footage of B-2 bombers, properties immediately adjacent to an airfield create direct — and dangerous — access vectors,” L.J. Eads, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, told the DCNF, and pointed to satellite communications (SATCOM) infrastructure located on the north end of Whiteman AFB.
“Those dishes are plausibly tied to the base’s SATCOM and secure command-and-control links and would logically fall under the purview of the 509th Communications Squadron,” Eads said. “The 509th is responsible for the B-2’s global-strike command, control, and communications networks — the systems that allow the bomber force to receive, process, and transmit mission data securely from Whiteman or forward-deployed locations.”
Still, this danger doesn’t end there. Records also show that soon after the purchase of the Missouri trailer park next to Whiteman AFB in 2017, a similar shell company owned by the same Chinese couple in Canada bought the Pecan Grove Mobile Home Park in Oglethorpe, Georgia.
That foreign-owned property is just 35 miles from Robins Air Force Base — a major U.S. military logistical hub — home of the Air Force Materiel Command’s Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex (WR-ALC) (FLZ), the worldwide manager for a wide range of aircraft, engines, missiles, software, and avionics.
It is also just 50 miles from Fort Benning, home of the Army’s Airborne, Armor, and Infantry schools, as well as the Army’s elite 75th Ranger Regiment, and many other units.
As Eads noted:
Kinetic weapons can obviously reach targets at 30–50 miles, but the real operational leverage for the CCP at those distances lies in electronic warfare, cyber intrusion, and persistent intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance. Those capabilities are easier to operate from standoff, easier to maintain and hide, and allow adversaries to surveil, jam, and degrade critical nodes while remaining effectively ‘off the map’ of conventional defenses — precisely why co-location matters.
Chinese ownership of U.S. properties anywhere near strategic U.S. facilities should be prohibited. The Department of Justice DOJ, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Department of War (DOW) should all be thoroughly investigating these entities and their properties.
And lawmakers must make new laws addressing this serious national security threat.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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Foreigners should be prohibited to be able to own ANY land within 50 miles of a defense base. Prohibited period would be better.
Now, try to set up next to a Chinese base and see how easy that is.
An accidental fire wouldn’t hurt.