GOP Rep: Why Do We Let China Buy So Much American Farmland? | Opinion

The Chinese Communist Party has launched a multi-tiered campaign to acquire critical assets within the United States, collect new data on American citizens, and influence our institutions. Part of this campaign involves purchasing American farmland, often near sensitive military sites, thereby putting our supply chains, food security, and national security at risk. While this may sound like the beginning of a bad novel, I can assure you, the threat is very real. In January, the Government Accountability Office published a report revealing that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) system of tracking foreign ownership of land is wildly inaccurate and…