Whatever the financial corruption with Chinese debt this NPS takeover is intended for exactly what they say it is: mass preservationist wilderness to eliminate and prevent economic development and private property rights. They couldn't get anything through Congress, the state has opposed it for three decades, local people impacted have voted against it in 2 to 1 landslides despite utopian promises in one-sided PR campaigns costing the promoters literally millions of dollars -- so they illegally invoked the Antiquities Act of 1906 to impose it with a presidential decree.