“Chinese companies are taking American land”
I think they are purchasing American land which is very different from taking.
I would like to think that when I purchase land, it is not called “taking”.
I would like to think that the USA purchased Alaska and did not take it.
Yes true.
The difference is that purchasing land in the US still requires our rule of law and constitutional protections on that property, while China ‘taking’ land would be absent of those protections.