{"id":1622279,"date":"2022-08-26T06:48:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T10:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1622279"},"modified":"2022-08-26T06:49:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T10:49:31","slug":"if-biden-wont-stop-china-land-grabs-congress-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-biden-wont-stop-china-land-grabs-congress-will\/","title":{"rendered":"If Biden Won\u2019t Stop China Land Grabs, Congress Will"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fif-biden-wont-stop-china-land-grabs-congress-will%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=1622279&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<div id=\"speechkit-wrapper\" class=\"speechkit-wrapper\">\n<p><span class=\"label-bg\">NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">After Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s contentious trip to Taiwan, tensions are steadily rising between the United States and China. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has conducted a series of escalating military drills around Taiwan, with some reports indicating that it could invade the island within the next 18 months. With a potential confrontation looming, China is amassing a secret weapon inside our own borders: significant control over America\u2019s most valuable farmland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">In 2020 alone, China increased its ownership of U.S. land by more than 80%\u2014to 352,000 acres, or over 550 square miles. Much of this land is in highly strategic locations, such as near American military bases or along our southern border, and more than half of it is agricultural. The purpose of these purchases is likely twofold.<\/p>\n<p>First, China is seeking greater control of food supplies\u2014both ours and its own. The CCP understands that food is essential to a nation\u2019s survival, especially in times of conflict. The pandemic and the war in Ukraine have already revealed the fragility of America\u2019s food supply. If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Communist China<\/a> can gain even partial control over U.S. domestic agriculture, high prices and empty shelves could become weapons of war.<\/p>\n<p>China is also acutely aware of its own reliance on imports to feed its 1.4 billion citizens. It\u2019s no surprise that China\u2019s acquisitions of farmland extend far beyond our own country. In the decade following 2009, Chinese agricultural investments worldwide grew tenfold, bolstering its ability to redirect the world\u2019s food to its own people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/china-continues-military-drills-near-taiwan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CHINA CONTINUES MILITARY DRILLS NEAR TAIWAN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Second, by snapping up U.S. farmland, China is seeking national security leverage, as evidenced by the strategic locations of the acquisitions. Among its recent purchases were 300 acres near Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, which one senator described as the &#8220;the backbone of all U.S. military communications across the globe.&#8221; Multiple experts have pointed out that this land could allow for monitoring air traffic and even intercepting sensitive drone and space-based communications.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One state over, in Montana, Chinese tech corporation Huawei grabbed a large plot of land near nuclear silos that house 50 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles. A federal investigation recently concluded that the equipment was capable of capturing and disrupting highly sensitive Defense Department communications, including those regarding nuclear weapons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The same strategy is playing out in South Texas. A former member of the Chinese army, who still has ties to the communist party, purchased 130,000 acres surrounding Laughlin Air Force Base. This raised multiple red flags for government officials in Washington. Laughlin is a training site for new pilots, but it\u2019s also less than ten miles from the Mexico border, where China has been trafficking fentanyl into the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pair this with Chinese marijuana production and distribution in Oklahoma. Last year, law enforcement discovered Chinese nationals buying Oklahoma farmland at exorbitant prices, growing thousands of pounds of marijuana, and distributing it on the U.S. black market. Perhaps China considers this a bonus: not only is it gaining leverage over our food supplies and national security, it is also contributing to a drug problem that is weakening American communities.<\/p>\n<p>It seems obvious that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/foreign-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a nation should not allow adversaries<\/a> to buy up its land for any purpose, much less those that pose direct threats. Indeed, it is obvious to China, who forbids Americans from owning any Chinese farmland. Why, then, does the Biden administration refuse to compel China to play by its own rules? The continued failure of this administration to prevent these land grabs is an abdication of its duty to our farmers, our families, and our allies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE OPINION NEWSLETTER<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not too late for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Congress to force the administration<\/a>\u2019s hand. We are sponsoring and supporting a bill to prevent the purchase of American farmland by China. Passage of this bill is more critical than ever in the wake of escalating tensions surrounding Taiwan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we track these troubling developments in the Taiwan Strait, we must recognize that the CCP\u2019s strategy is not contained to the other side of the world. China is here, inside our gates, gaining control that it could use against us at any moment. If we wait much longer to stop these purchases, it could soon be too late.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>Republican Dan Newhouse represents Washington&#8217;s 4th Congressional District, serves on the House Appropriations Committee, and is a member of the Republican Mainstreet Partnership, where Sarah Chamberlain is president and CEO.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<p>Dan Newhouse, a Republican,\u00a0represents Washington\u2019s 4th\u00a0Congressional District and is chairman of the Congressional Western Caucus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! After Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s contentious trip to Taiwan, tensions are steadily rising between the United States and China. 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