Beware: China is Gobbling Up American Farmland

Townhall.com ^ | January 13, 2022 | Martha Boneta

[Kaslin]

No foreign country should be allowed to buy land in the United States.

[Bayard]

They should only be allowed to buy the square footage necessary to build an embassy and that is all.

What is with our sovereignty?

[Elsie]

China has become one of the biggest players in American agriculture. In the decade ending in January 2020, the Chinese snapped up 192,000 acres of America’s 900 million acres of farmland.

How many Chinese actually LIVE on these acres?

[Kaslin]

They should only be allowed to buy the square footage necessary to build an embassy and that is all.

Exactly, I didn't even think about that.

[COBOL2Java]

What is with our sovereignty?

"Sovereignty? Is that a new pudding brand?"

[virgil]

We have leaders who are weak, insulated and greedy. All they care about is satisfying their crazed agenda and their glands.

[Elsie]

No foreign country should be allowed to buy land in the United States.

Worry ye not, as we can NATIONALIZE all these acres any time we want - just like other countries have done, stealing US assets in THEIR countries.

[drone]

The United States will seize these properties as partial penalty for damages caused by their biological covid warfare.

[Joe 6-pack]

Gee...the capitalists seem to be selling a bunch of rope to the communists.

I wonder what they plan on doing with it?

[elpadre]

“No foreign country should be allowed to buy land in the United States.”

I agree! And as much as I hate regulations, this is something that must be controlled - the purchase of American land, industry and and businesses by foreign powers.

[IamConservative]

Knowing this was happening, I got motivated to put in a bid to by my Grandparents 500 acres before it slips away. I own a 1/4 of it now.

[central_va]

All that trade deficit money has to go somewhere. This is the real price of offshoring industry. You can thank a Free Traitor™.

PS: Any non industrial region of the world is ripe for Chinese economic hegemony and mercantilism INCLUDING THE USA.

[metmom]

It looks like China is trying to take over the world’s food supply – or at least get enough control of it to ensure its people are first in line and put the squeeze on strategic competitors, such as the United States.

I’d say it more than looks like it.

I agree with you about not allowing foreign countries to buy US land.

[metmom]

They can rent the land for the embassy.

[metmom]

Go for it!

And thanks for doing your part, as small as it seems.

[central_va]

Lets see,,,, we ship out agricultural goods, sell land and export raw materials. They (globalistst corporations, in bed with the PRC, using 3rd world labor) add real value and ship back as durable goods. We ship out jobs, wealth and technical knowledge for a buck today and poverty tomorrow.

[central_va]

When will the right wing get behind real import tariffs? It’s the only proven way to reverse being the victim of overt globalist mercantilism.

[TheConservativeBanker]

Since they can’t take the land back to China, it can easily be confiscated by a government with a bit of courage. COVID liability can be the pretext.

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

China wants to poison us and our pets.. Made in U.S.A. will be meaningless in regards to food safety.

[DIRTYSECRET]

California’s Central Valley could feed the world. Good luck getting water.