In Bills To Bar Communist China From Buying US Land, We Need Big Strides Not Baby Steps


Source: thefederalist.com thefederalist.com

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Since 2010, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliates have been aggressively buying American farmland. Over the last decade, Chinese ownership grew from just short of 14,000 acres in the United States to just over 350,000 acres. Foreign ownership of American land has increased rapidly, as well, with foreign entities obtaining 2 million acres over the last 10 years. Most of the land is owned by countries the United States considers friendly, but the number of Chinese entities buying American land is reason enough for concern. Thanks to America’s abundance of agricultural land, the U.S. has the ability to...