American farmland should belong to American farmers.
The Trump administration on Tuesday unveiled its National Farm Security Action Plan, and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins highlighted one part of the plan to prevent American farmland from falling into hostile hands.
“The Chinese owning of farmland in our country is a massive national security issue,” Rollins said in a video posted to X, noting that many purchases of farmland have been near domestic military bases.
“Too much American farmland is owned by Chinese nationals — Enough is enough. It’s time to take back our land,” she posted.
In another post on X, Rollins noted, “protecting the homeland begins with protecting our farmland.”
“We feed the world. We lead the world. And we’ll never let foreign adversaries control our land, our labs, or our livelihoods,” Rollins said, according to a news release posted on the Department of Agriculture’s website.
……..Rollins noted the recent arrest of a Chinese Communist Party member detained for bringing a fungus into the U.S. that the release called ,”a potential agroterrorism weapon.”
The release explained that through multiple levels of threats, “America’s enemies are playing the long game — infiltrating our research, buying up our farmland, stealing our technology, and launching cyberattacks on our food systems. These actions expose strategic vulnerabilities in America’s food and agriculture supply chain.”
In addition to protecting farmland from purchases by hostile nations, the plans calls for increased supply chain resilience and the protection of critical infrastructure, protection of plant and animal health from bio-threats, and assurance that USDA programs put Americans first while protecting the nutrition safety net from fraud and foreign exploitation.
“Foreign ownership of land near strategic bases and U.S. military installations poses a serious threat to our national security. The Farm Security Plan will put America First and keep our bases across the homeland secure,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.
ChiCom entities have purchased land right outside of U.S. military bases.
That should have never been allowed.
The U.S. government and American businesses are selling our security to the CCP.
While U.S. politicians and CEOs are treating Beijing like a business partner, the Chinese have engaged in cyber attacks, spying, economic espionage, and actual threatening of U.S. Naval vessels. Yet these traitors think giving them money, technology, and contributing to the Chinese threat are good ideas.
Propping up a communist totalitarian regime with capitalist dollars is suicidal. China is an enemy and should be treated as such instead of having the privilege of being a business associate.
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