Posted on Jun 26, 2023
China owns 300,000 acres of land in the U.S. Here's where
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In 2021, a Chinese company bought land near an Air Force base in Grand Fork, N.D., sending lawmakers into a frenzy.
Lawmakers feared that China, which many policymakers view as a strategic adversary even though it's the country's top trading partner outside North America, could gain control over the U.S. food and energy supply, as well as a hold on markets and critical infrastructure.
Indeed, during the past four decades, Chinese companies and investors have bought up land in the U.S. as well as purchased major food companies like Smithfield Foods, the United States' largest pork processor. Corporations own the majority of that land. And though Chinese-owned land is a tiny fraction of all foreign-owned land in the U.S., its purchases have raised fears that the Chinese government could have control, through the Chinese corporations, over U.S. assets or gain access to U.S.-based information.
"I don't know that we know for sure all the foreign land that potentially is owned by Chinese individuals or folks controlled by the Chinese government," Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., who is skeptical of Chinese land ownership in the U.S., told NPR.
In 2021, a Chinese company bought land near an Air Force base in Grand Fork, N.D., sending lawmakers into a frenzy.
Lawmakers feared that China, which many policymakers view as a strategic adversary even though it's the country's top trading partner outside North America, could gain control over the U.S. food and energy supply, as well as a hold on markets and critical infrastructure.
Indeed, during the past four decades, Chinese companies and investors have bought up land in the U.S. as well as purchased major food companies like Smithfield Foods, the United States' largest pork processor. Corporations own the majority of that land. And though Chinese-owned land is a tiny fraction of all foreign-owned land in the U.S., its purchases have raised fears that the Chinese government could have control, through the Chinese corporations, over U.S. assets or gain access to U.S.-based information.
"I don't know that we know for sure all the foreign land that potentially is owned by Chinese individuals or folks controlled by the Chinese government," Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., who is skeptical of Chinese land ownership in the U.S., told NPR.
China owns 300,000 acres of land in the U.S. Here's where
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I understand and share their concern, particularly in regard to farm land
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WHy, is that ok with anyone, who would knowingly sell apportion of land that is used for the American
experiment in individual freedom, to a known adversary, DUH! And the CHINESE GOVERNMENT OWNS AN AMERICAN FOOD PROCESSING PLANT AS WELL. This is beyond stupid, its cowardice, as well as Nieve, Does anyone realize the Chinese Government can place their people on orders to shut any land or facilities they own down, in America, & We cant do anything to stop them in our own country???
WHAT FOOLS R WE??
experiment in individual freedom, to a known adversary, DUH! And the CHINESE GOVERNMENT OWNS AN AMERICAN FOOD PROCESSING PLANT AS WELL. This is beyond stupid, its cowardice, as well as Nieve, Does anyone realize the Chinese Government can place their people on orders to shut any land or facilities they own down, in America, & We cant do anything to stop them in our own country???
WHAT FOOLS R WE??
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