Posted on 01/23/2022 1:08:37 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is CONTINUING its U.S. agricultural takeover, buying hundreds of thousands of arable acres across the nation. The purchase of U.S. land is part of the CCP’s food security initiative, posing a significant threat to food and national security for the American public. Republicans appear willing to confront the risk by introducing amendments to H.R. 4356 and 2022 Agricultural Appropriations bill to limit land ownership and tax incentives for foreign investors.
At the beginning of 2020, Chinese investors had purchased upwards of 192,000 acres of American agricultural land. The value of the land is roughly $1.9 billion, which is an exponential increase in ownership over the ten years prior. Exact numbers on the land owned by China and Chinese companies are almost impossible to track, as the USDA’s data on farmland ownership is two-years out of date.
One large purchase that was tracked was made by a Chinese billionaire named Sun Guangxin and his company GH America Energy LLC, a subsidiary of China’s Guanghui Energy Company. Sun spent $110 million purchasing 140,000 acres in a Texas county near the Mexico border and Laughlin Air Force Base.
The land was set aside for the owner to build a wind-farm to feed into Texas’ electricity grid. Known as Blue Hills Wind development, local ranchers, politicians, and the US Military were quick to note the proximity of the development as a serious risk for multiple threats from hostile actors.
The wind-farm development was only 70 miles from Laughlin, raising concerns of potential efforts to spy or “otherwise interfere with US flight training.” Military outlets further noted that the power supply to the Air Force base could be vulnerable should the development go ahead.
Sun is not alone in the takeover of American land by Chinese individuals and businesses. In 2017, ChemChina, a Chinese state-owned enterprise, acquired Syngenta for $43 billion. While mainstream news media argue that the takeover was a bad deal for China, it offers significant long-term leverage over global and domestic food production.
Syngenta is the world’s largest crop protection maker and third-largest seed supplier. The now CCP-backed company operates in 16 different states, invests in agricultural research and development every year, and employs more than 4,000 Americans in 41 states, according to Newsweek.
Despite America suffering supply chain shortages, leaving shelves bare, the Biden’s Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack continues to build strong ties with the CCP. Vilsack’s efforts in support of China came after reports surfaced of China’s land purchases posing a significant threat to American national security.
“The current trend in the U.S. is leading us toward the creation of a Chinese-owned agricultural land monopoly,” warned Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) last July.
Good. It will give the government something to confiscate for unleashing the Wuhan Coodies.
Why did we allow our jobs and manufacturing to be off shored? All that trade deficit money was going to come back to buy American “goods”. Goods like raw materials and land LOL How stupid are you globalists any way?
My kids are trying to buy a starter houses and are being priced out of the markert. Sorry you don’t fu—ing care....
Setter is what I call a Free Traitor...
LOL! So what! Pulling another “Japanese real estate” mistake of long ago. Also, make it impossible to do anything to the land via licenses, certifications, etc.
eminent domain, poof your foreign ownership is toast
“setter is what I call a free traitor”
LMAO. I have been against globalism and offshoring since the early 2000.
And have been preaching about the dangers of China for 25 years before anyone even cared.
I have seen what it did to my area. All the factories closed up.
How many times Have I agreed with your post on free traitors and responded...you have no memory.
“My kids are trying to buy a starter houses and are being priced out of the markert. Sorry you don’t fu—ing care...”
Historical low interest rates and subsequent housing demand as a result is what is pricing your kids out of the market.
A fund representing their cash has offered on one of my properties ....commercial west music city
It’s a very good offer
Red China already own most of our politicians so its not too strange that they buy our land too.
Well excuse me. Protectionism all the way...
Bio-Pirates: Consider Bill Gates involvement with GMO’s /
1. Diversity Seek (DivSeek) is a global project launched in 2015 to map the genetic data in the peasant diversity of seeds held in gene banks. It is funded by Bill Gates. It robs the peasant of their seeds and knowledge, it robs the seed of its integrity and diversity, its evolutionary history, its link to the soil, and reduces it to “information” and “data”. It is an extractive project to “mine” the data in the seed. SEVEN MILLION CROP ACCESSIONS are in public seed banks. DivSeek could allow 5 corporations to own this diversity.
“Farmers committing suicide because of seed monopolies, as has happened with Bt cotton in India, patients dying due to lack of access to affordable medicine because of patent monopolies, pollinators and soil organisms dying because patented RoundUp and other herbicides are being pushed in Agriculture through the promotion of Roundup Ready GMOs, farmers in Sri Lanka dying because of Kidney Failure because of the spread of Roundup, are all signs of Sarve Bhavaintu Dukhina.”
2. Gates Foundation is spearheading the neoliberal plunder of African agriculture
Colin Todhunter 21st January 2016
3. How Bill Gates, Syngenta and Rockefeller
Became Custodians of the Doomsday Crop Diversity Vault http://thegaiareports.weebly.com/how-bill-gates-syngenta-and-rockefeller-became-custodians-of-the-doomsday-crop-diversity-vault.html
4. Toxic Agriculture and the Gates Foundation https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/02/toxic-agriculture-and-the-gates-foundation/
WAIT..WAIT. I wonder if the Reds buy up all that California farm land and get denied access to irrigation water, what would happen?
Boy would that be something to watch.
WAIT..WAIT. I wonder if the Reds buy up all that California farm land and get denied access to irrigation water, what would happen?
Boy would that be something to watch.
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In the San Joaquin valley,,
The watermelons would abandon their endangered little friends in a heart beat
and provide as much water as their little red comrades wanted.
Amazing isn’t it. I have so many things to say but then I realize it doesn’t matter.
However, when you learn of stuff like this…..
ALL things China are bad and should be prohibited. But hey, in his/her rural area all is good. Don’t worry about a thing. They’re right about everything. I kind of get that “hipster-I’m always right” vibe.
Rd later.
Blackrock, Invitation Homes, and a CCP investment fund have been buying single family homes. This is something new and in California it has been driving price increases. Houses are unaffordable for first time buyers, at least American ones whose families aren’t rich. The rest of you get impacted by this as Califrnians sell and leave the state and drive up your prices. Very average houses in Orange County are listing in the mid $800,000s.
Trump will likely nationalize it all to pay us back for the $2-3 trillion in reparations that they owe us.
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