Rich Chinese Dude Offers To Buy 0.3% Of Iceland. Collecting Vikings!
China’s 16th richest person wants to buy himself some fucking Iceland. Not like a couple of houses. Naw, son. Dream! Dream big. His name is Huang Nubo and he wants to buy 300 square kilometers of wilderness.
Boing Boing:
The self described “poet and adventurer” has offered $100 million to buy 300 square kilometres of Icelandic wilderness to develop a golf course and tourist destination resort.
Opponents have questioned why such a large amount of land — equal to about 0.3 per cent of Iceland’s total area — is needed to build a hotel. They warned that the project could provide cover for China’s geopolitical interests in the Atlantic island nation and Nato member.While home to just 320,000 people, Iceland occupies a strategically important location between Europe and North America and has been touted as a potential hub for Asian cargo should climate change open Arctic waters to shipping.
Why does Nubo need this much land to build a hotel? Because he’s totally building a super headquarters underneath in which he’ll do battle with the Bond equivalents of the real world.