{"id":1982685,"date":"2023-07-25T21:02:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T01:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-votes-to-keep-china-from-buying-us-farmland\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T21:04:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T01:04:21","slug":"senate-votes-to-keep-china-from-buying-us-farmland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-votes-to-keep-china-from-buying-us-farmland\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate blocks China&#8217;s purchase of US farmland."},"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\">14<\/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%2Fsenate-votes-to-keep-china-from-buying-us-farmland%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=1982685&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--><h2>The Senate \u200bTakes Action to Protect\u200c American Agricultural Land from Foreign Adversaries<\/h2>\n<p>The Senate \u200dmade a \u200bsignificant move on\u2064 Tuesday by overwhelmingly voting \u2062to include \u2064an amendment in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-faces-strong-opposition-from-his-own-party-on-cluster-munitions\/\" title=\"Biden's Party Opposes Cluster Munitions\">annual national defense bill<\/a>.\u200d This amendment aims to prevent\u200c foreign adversaries from purchasing American agricultural land in the future. The bipartisan vote of 91-7 demonstrates a united front in\u200b safeguarding national security.<\/p>\n<h3>Concerns Over Foreign Ownership of American \u200dFarmland<\/h3>\n<p>Sens. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Mike\u2063 Rounds (R-SD) introduced the amendment in \u2062response to growing concerns about \u2064countries like \u200cChina, Russia, North Korea, and Iran acquiring U.S. farmland. Reports have highlighted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-carolina-lawmakers-unanimously-move-to-stop-chinese-entities-from-buying-up-farmland\/\" title=\"North Carolina Lawmakers Unanimously Move To Stop Chinese Entities From Buying Up Farmland\">potential national security risks posed<\/a> by foreign ownership, particularly when \u200bit occurs\u200c near\u200c military\u200c installations.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In recent years, our country has seen firsthand attempts \u2063by our near-peer competitors to acquire \u2063land adjacent to\u2063 our military bases,&#8221; said \u2062Rounds. He cited a specific example from\u2062 2022, where a\u200c Chinese government-linked company attempted to purchase a large plot of land near a crucial military drone base\u2062 in North Dakota. This incident underscores the\u200d urgent need \u2062for the amendment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The proposed amendment would grant the Committee on Foreign Investment in\u2062 the \u200cUnited States (CFIUS) the authority\u2063 to review significant foreign investments in\u2064 agriculture. By utilizing data from\u200c the Department of Agriculture, the committee would\u200c be able to assess the \u2062security \u200bimplications of these investments. Additionally, the amendment\u2064 empowers the committee to prevent\u200d future purchases of farmland by foreign adversaries.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As\u200b a third-generation \u2064farmer, I know that food \u200bsecurity is national\u200d security,&#8221; \u200bemphasized Tester. &#8220;Allowing our foreign adversaries like China to invest in American ag land and agribusinesses threatens \u2062American businesses and puts our food security\u2064 and national security at risk.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Similar\u2064 Efforts and the Growing Concern<\/h3>\n<p>Sens. Joni Ernst\u2063 (R-IA) and Debbie Stabenow\u200c (D-MI)\u2064 introduced a\u200c bill earlier\u2063 this year that aligns with the amendment&#8217;s objectives. Their bill calls for a review\u200d of any purchase or lease by a foreign entity\u200d that exceeds 320 acres of land\u2064 valued \u200bat more than $5 \u2063million. The senators argue that current \u2062U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-votes-to-keep-china-from-buying-us-farmland\/\" title=\"Senate blocks China's purchase of US farmland.\">laws\u200b lack sufficient oversight<\/a> regarding foreign adversaries&#8217; farmland acquisitions\u2064 and their locations.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;America is not\u200b for sale. There is no ignoring that China is in our own backyard \u2062and buying up land near our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-investigates-internal-hack\/\" title=\"FBI Investigates Internal Hack\">critical military installations<\/a>,&#8221; declared Ernst. &#8220;I have worked to close the loopholes that have allowed the Chinese Communist Party\u2063 to encroach on our farmland, and today I\u2063 am proud\u200c to see those efforts are helping to strengthen our national security and combat our foreign adversaries. As \u2062Iowa farmers know, food security is national security.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the Department of Agriculture,\u2062 foreign\u200d ownership\u200b of U.S. land\u2063 has nearly doubled in the past decade. Canadian investors currently own\u2064 31% or 12.8 million acres, while China holds \u200bless than 1% with just over\u200d 380,000 acres of \u2064foreign-owned land.<\/p>\n<p>At the\u200b state \u200clevel, an increasing number of lawmakers have\u200c been working to ban \u2062foreign ownership of farmland, particularly by China. Florida recently joined at \u200cleast seven other states in passing\u2062 bills to \u2062address \u200dthis issue in their state legislatures.<\/p>\n<h3>Senate Majority Leader Urges Support for the Amendment<\/h3>\n<p>Earlier \u200don \u2062Tuesday, Senate \u2063Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) urged his colleagues to vote \u2062in\u200d favor \u2062of the amendment. He emphasized that \u200dany concerns could be addressed during the conference \u200cprocess, highlighting \u2064the Senate&#8217;s \u2063commitment \u2062to\u2064 productive\u2062 work on national defense.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I appreciate\u200d the cooperation \u200dof \u2062senators on\u2062 both sides as we work to lock in \u200bthese \u200bvotes,&#8221; stated Schumer. &#8220;We have a chance to show the American\u200b people that \u200cthe Senate can work\u200b productively on our national defense, in stark contrast to the partisan race\u200c to\u2063 the bottom that we saw over in the\u200d House.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Senate&#8217;s resounding\u200d support\u200b for this \u2064amendment reflects a shared \u200ccommitment to protecting American agricultural \u200bland from foreign adversaries. By\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/buttigieg-says-transportation-department-working-to-avert-summer-travel-disruptions-amid-demand-surge\/\" title=\"Buttigieg: Transportation Dept. Preventing Summer Travel Disruptions Amid High Demand.\">taking proactive measures<\/a>, the Senate aims to\u2062 ensure \u2063both\u2062 food security and national security for the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to read more from The Washington\u2062 Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate, with bipartisan support of 91-7, voted to add an amendment to the crucial annual national defense bill. This amendment aims to block foreign adversaries from buying American agricultural land. Senators Mazie Hirono, Alex Padilla, Rand Paul, and Peter Welch were the only ones who voted against the measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1982686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982685","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=1982685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}