{"id":1556059,"date":"2022-07-15T08:52:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T12:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556059"},"modified":"2022-07-15T09:04:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T13:04:12","slug":"chinese-company-buys-u-s-farmland-near-air-force-base-sparking-espionage-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-company-buys-u-s-farmland-near-air-force-base-sparking-espionage-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Company Buys U.S. Farmland Near Air Force Base, Sparking Espionage Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchinese-company-buys-u-s-farmland-near-air-force-base-sparking-espionage-concerns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556059&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"aside1\" class=\"left\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>A Chinese company\u2019s recent purchase of farmland in North Dakota has lawmakers and analysts sounding the alarm about potential espionage.<\/p>\n<p>The 300-acre farm, sold to Fufeng Group, is just 12 miles from Grand Forks Air Force Base, which houses sophisticated military drone technology.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fufeng Group said it is planning to use the land to build a $700 million corn milling plant that would create at least 200 jobs as well as residual opportunities for logistics, trucking, and other services.<\/p>\n<p>But US military officials are raising the alarm nonetheless. Senior Air Force officers circulated a memo in April warning that the presence of Fufeng Group in Grand Forks, a town of just 60,000 people, was a national security threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the most sensitive elements of Grand Forks exist with the digital uplinks and downlinks inherent with unmanned air systems and their interaction with space-based assets,\u201d wrote US Air Force Maj. Jeremy Fox.<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese firm with close proximity to such data \u201cwould present a costly national security risk causing grave damage to United States\u2019 strategic advantages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) has also expressed opposition to the presence of Fufeng Group, which he views as a front for the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we grossly under appreciate how effective they are at collecting information, collecting data, using it in nefarious ways,\u201d Cramer told CNBC. (<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/01\/chinese-firm-bought-farm-near-us-air-force-drone-base-report\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">New York Post<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gordon Chang, a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute, blasted the sale of the farmland on \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight\u201d Thursday, calling the move \u201cimpossibly stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, the Chinese are extremely aggressive,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the more important story is that we are letting them do this. We are letting them buy a parcel 12 miles from a sensitive military facility where with passive listening equipment they can figure out almost everything we\u2019re doing with those drones. This just is impossibly stupid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>The move comes as lawmakers are looking to <a href=\"https:\/\/texasfarmbureau.org\/congress-wants-to-ban-sale-of-u-s-farmland-to-foreign-countries\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ban<\/a> the sale of U.S. farmland to Russian, Chinese, North Korean and Iranian companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore needs to be done to ensure the U.S. food supply chain is secure and independent,\u201d said Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Washington), who authored the measure in the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Drug Administration funding bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese company\u2019s recent purchase of farmland in North Dakota has lawmakers and analysts sounding the alarm about potential espionage.The 300-acre farm, sold to Fufeng Group, is just<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1573823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1573823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}