Lawmakers sound alarm over China purchases of US farmland

[trobesmom]

Originally Posted by Spartacus713

China is buying up massive amounts of US farmland. It is a national security issue and must be addressed. We cannot sell control of our domestic food supply to the CCP.



And it is not just foreign nationals we should be concerned about. Globalist elite billionaires, such as the covid vaccine pushing Bill Gates, are rapidly acquiring huge amounts of land also. In fact, Bill gates is the largest owner of farmland in America:

Bill Gates is reportedly the largest farmland owner in America

This all has a very nefarious odor to it.

China and other countries have been buying American soil for years. This isn't new.

[anononcty]

One has to wonder if China owns the farms in Half Moon Bay California site of multiple killings at 2 locations of farm workers.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/loca...n-bay/3137085/

If the farm workers were Chinese it could be they were slave labor forced to work on farms to pay their way into the US. They have killed Chinese farms workers in the past at other farms.

https://www.yahoo.com/video/man-char...165721532.html

[tinytrump]

The Chinese already own New York so... keep selling our birthrights... its OUR fault.

[legalsea]

Perhaps it is a concern. Of course, back in the mid-70s there was widespread concern over the Japanese buying up land in America, including Hawaii, which pundits saying Hawaii would soon be a possession of Japan.



Then, Japan's economy went south. One thing about land: you cannot move it. Indeed, I once asked my late father why taxing districts taxed land instead of the landowner; he said "land doesn't run away".



Many of said Japanese individuals and companies had to sell their land.



But, foreign ownership here can be a concern. Remember how in 2017 Saudi Arabia became the sole owner of the Port Arthur refinery facility, the largest such facility in the United States?




https://money.cnn.com/2017/05/01/inv...hur/index.html


Indeed, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, wealthy Russians went on spree of buying US land, only to have to sell in the recent year to try and avoid sanctions being imposed.



But, as others have noted, Canada is the largest foreign landowner in the United States (mainly timber land), so let us not panic. To put another way, 97 percent of land in the United States is owned by citizens.