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Trump administration plans to ban the Chinese groups from buying the US farm, especially in the military bases, from increasing anxiety that their purchases ruined national security.
The US Agriculture Secretary Rollins on Tuesday says administration acts on states and local governments forbids the purchase of national Americans and other foreign enemies “.
“The American agriculture is not just about feeding our families, but about the protection of our country and standing in foreign systems that make our systems strengthen our National Farm Security Action Plan.
Speaking on the edge of Rollins, the Secretary of Defense Hegsthh said “Owning foreign land near US military settlements and US military installations have an intense threat to our national security”.
Advertising follows concerns from legislators in the capital hill and the entire shopping of the Chinese in recent years, alarm prompts for their possible use for spy. The US China Committee house is specifically pushed for further examination of Chinese Farmand acquisitions.
John Moolenaar, the Republican chair of the Chinese Committee’s house, said the step is a “necessary step to protect our agriculture and our sovereignty”.
“The Chinese pattern of buying our farm is not an economic game – it is a National Security Heat,” Moolenaar said. “We will not allow China to buy us farms and jeopardize American food supplies. That threat becomes more acute when the land purchases occurred at military bases.”
As part of an effort to increase foreign exchange of American Farmland, which is traded in foreign investments for potential US investments for potential threats to National Security.
Lawmakers want to give Cfius authority to investigate a wider entering investments.
In 2024, President Joe Biden ordered a group of China running a crypto-mining operation of the land sale in which it operates nuclear ballistic licenses. This is the first time US uses the committee to force a foreign entity to sell American land.
Rollins said the administration will do all of its power “claw back” land that has already been purchased by groups from China and other enemies in China.
According to the 2023 Department of Agriculture island entities in Chinese owned 277,336 acres of American Farmland, under 1 percent of the total owned by foreign groups. China’s purchases were concentrated in Texas, North Carolina, Missouri, Utah and Florida.
Farmland’s checking owned by Chinese about a wider growing focus on ways that Chinese groups can conduct US spy.
Lawmakers are concerned with all from agricultural land to Chinese air turbines with technology that some officers believe electronic spy.
In recent years, the US and the Partners of the Five Eyes Intelligence-Sharing Network – Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand – also increasingly Public warningS part of a range of Chinese investments to companies who are able to conduct spy in countries.
Chinese embassy in Washington approached for comment.
