{"id":1612282,"date":"2022-08-18T08:01:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T12:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1612282"},"modified":"2022-08-18T08:01:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T12:01:33","slug":"how-much-of-the-u-s-has-china-already-infiltrated-right-under-our-noses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-much-of-the-u-s-has-china-already-infiltrated-right-under-our-noses\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Of The U.S. Has China Already Infiltrated Right Under Our Noses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fhow-much-of-the-u-s-has-china-already-infiltrated-right-under-our-noses%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=1612282&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--><p>Numerous pieces have been published discussing the inexorable rise of China, and the likelihood of the Chinese economy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/chinas-economy-could-overtake-us-economy-by-2030\/6380892.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">overtaking<\/a>\u00a0the United States\u2019 economy. More concerning, though, is the fact that Chinese companies closely aligned with Beijing are directly influencing operations in the United States. They are buying up land, influencing news and media networks, and shaping the narratives on college campuses. The Chinese assault is less of a swift invasion and more of an endless infiltration.<\/p>\n<h2>Land Grabs<\/h2>\n<p>Fufeng Group, a company\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandforksherald.com\/opinion\/letters\/letter-grand-forks-shouldnt-be-courting-a-company-with-ties-to-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">with close ties<\/a>\u00a0to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), recently acquired 300 acres of prime farmland in North Dakota for $2.6 million.\u00a0China\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/07\/19\/china-buying-us-farms-foreign-purchase-499893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">now owns<\/a>\u00a0well over\u00a0192,000 agricultural acres in the United States. <\/p>\n<p>On July 25, obviously concerned by Fufeng\u2019s purchase,\u00a0Doug Burgum, the\u00a0governor of North Dakota\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.nd.gov\/sites\/www\/files\/documents\/Gov.%20Burgum%20letter%20urging%20expedited%20CFIUS%20review%2007.25.2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked<\/a>\u00a0the U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to \u201cprovide clarity on whether this land purchase has national security implications.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Burgum\u2019s fears are most definitely warranted. Over the last decade,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ers.usda.gov\/amber-waves\/2018\/april\/china-s-agricultural-investment-abroad-is-rising\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chinese ownership of farmland<\/a>\u00a0in the United States has increased dramatically. To compound matters, only a handful of states\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/investigatemidwest.org\/2017\/06\/22\/regulation-on-foreign-ownership-of-agricultural-land-a-state-by-state-breakdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ban foreign ownership of farmland<\/a>.\u00a0Since 2016, a mysterious billionaire by the name of\u00a0Sun Guangxinhas spent tens of millions of dollars buying land in Texas. Sun\u2019s ties to the CCP\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johnhyatt\/2021\/08\/09\/why-a-secretive-chinese-billionaire-bought-140000-acres-of-land-in-texas\/?sh=3ebb333578c3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">are well known.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In truth, Chinese ownership of American farmland is just one part of the disturbing equation. Residential real estate is the second part. China now accounts for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/chinese-investors-buy-more-us-residential-real-estate-than-any-other-country-but-trumps-trade-war-could-soon-end-that-2019-05-15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">roughly a quarter of total foreign investment<\/a>, in U.S. residential real estate, according to\u00a0Market Watch. The Chinese are now the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/article\/3185825\/chinas-buyers-are-snapping-abodes-marco-rubios-florida-home-base-splurging#:~:text=The%20Chinese%20have%20been%20the,billion%20investment%20in%20the%20period.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">largest foreign buyers\u00a0<\/a>of U.S. homes and this has been the case for close to a decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Chinese Media Partners<\/h2>\n<p>The next step in Chinese infiltration involves corporate media. Take CNN, for example. It\u2019s owned by CNN Global, which is part of Warner Bros. Discovery. This\u00a0multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate\u00a0has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.warnerbros.com\/news\/press-releases\/chinese-government-approves-warner-bros-international-cinemas%E2%80%99-multiplex-shanghai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">close ties to China<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Three other highly influential networks, NBC News, CNBC, and MSNBC, are owned by Comcast.\u00a0As Harold L. Vogel,\u00a0a former professor of finance and economics at Columbia,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/4469060-time-to-exit-comcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote last year<\/a>, Comcast\u2019s reliance on the Chinese market cannot be emphasized enough. From \u201cmajor feature film releases to a theme park, and to NBA basketball games,\u201d Comcast is beholden to the CCP. <\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Comcast\u00a0owns Universal Pictures.\u00a0In 2016, Universal announced that it was partnering with Perfect World, a Chinese entertainment company. It has co-financed dozens of movies with Universal, including\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perfect_World_Pictures#Films_co-financed_with_Universal_Pictures_or_Focus_Features\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jason Bourne\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cThe Northman<\/a>\u201c, one of the biggest movies of 2022. The Chinese connection runs even deeper. Last year, Universal Studios opened\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Business\/Travel-Leisure\/Universal-Studios-opens-Beijing-park-to-crowds-despite-tensions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a theme park<\/a>\u00a0in China\u2019s capital, Beijing. <\/p>\n<p>Then, there\u2019s\u00a0ABC News, owned by The Walt Disney Company. The American multinational may very well be headquartered in Burbank, California, but it can currently be found residing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hir.harvard.edu\/rated-c-for-censored-walt-disney-in-chinas-pocket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in China\u2019s pocket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Spies on College Campuses<\/h2>\n<p>Ownership comes in many forms. It\u2019s not just farmland, real estate, media empires, but also ownership of minds.\u00a0This is where Confucius Institutes come into play. These public educational and cultural promotion programs are funded and arranged currently by the Chinese International Education Foundation,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Chinese+International+Education+Foundation&#038;sxsrf=ALiCzsZwOtky9a8c1o_gWpHpknHAta5-wQ%3A1659697929279&#038;source=hp&#038;ei=CfvsYoD1DvDxhwOs9JrIBQ&#038;iflsig=AJiK0e8AAAAAYu0JGTFrR7v53N1G9YhqJSAs0qV819TI&#038;ved=0ahUKEwjAnYfMyK_5AhXw-GEKHSy6BlkQ4dUDCAc&#038;uact=5&#038;oq=Chinese+International+Education+Foundation&#038;gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EANQAFgAYP0GaABwAHgAgAEAiAEAkgEAmAEAoAECoAEB&#038;sclient=gws-wiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a shady organization<\/a>\u00a0affiliated with the\u00a0CCP. <\/p>\n<p>During his time in office, Donald Trump made a genuine effort to close as many of these institutes as possible.\u00a0However, despite<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2021\/02\/10\/cotton-rubio-blast-biden-over-decision-on-chinas-confucius-institutes-at-colleges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0warnings from numerous Republican lawmakers<\/a>, the Biden administration undid some of Trump\u2019s work. According to\u00a0a recent piece published by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/learningenglish.voanews.com\/a\/confucius-institutes-returning-to-us-schools-under-new-name\/6638037.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Voice of America (VOA)<\/a>, at least 28 institutes that were previously closed\u00a0have recently reopened under new names. <\/p>\n<p>As the VOA piece notes, On July 1 of last year, \u201cone day after its Confucius Institute closed, the College of William and Mary established the W&#038;M-BNU Collaborative Partnership with Beijing Normal University.\u201d The Chinese university, we\u2019re told, \u201cwas the American school\u2019s former Confucius Institute partner.\u201d Nothing, it seems, has changed but the name.\u00a0New face, same dangerous ideas and philosophies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/06\/21\/confucius-institutes-closing-but-chinese-influence-operations-continue-on-college-campuses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Daily Signal recently reported<\/a> the CCP-backed institutes have simply rebranded themselves. They have \u201cretained their function of promoting the interests of the Chinese Communist Party in the United States.\u201d These institutes are synonymous with espionage. \u00a0According\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/fbi-director-wray-says-scale-chinese-spying-us-blew-away-rcna14369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to Christopher Wray<\/a>, the 8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and current director of the FBI,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chinese spying<\/a>\u00a0in the U.S. has become so problematic that the FBI now launches at least two\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">counterintelligence investigations<\/a>\u00a0every day in an effort to nullify the threat from Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>How did we get here? How did we get to a place where a country that never tires of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/news\/world\/china-again-threatens-us-over-pelosis-possible-taiwan-visit-repositions-aircraft-carriers-5673007.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">threatening the United States<\/a>\u00a0now molds the minds of students across the country, shapes the narratives dished out by major media outlets, and owns huge amounts of American farmland and real estate?<\/p>\n<p>Would the CCP allow the United States to influence China in a similar manner? No, of course not. A lethal mixture of inattention, nonchalance, and poor policies has landed us in the hottest of waters. Cutting the Gordian knot won\u2019t be easy. In fact, it might prove to be impossible.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  John Mac Ghlionn is a researcher and cultural commentator. 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More concerning, though, is the fact that Chinese companies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1234,"featured_media":2315279,"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-1612282","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\/1612282","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\/1234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}