During a roundtable on the threat posed by communist China to American farmland, former President Donald Trump said that protecting the land was straightforward.
“We’re going to protect it by saying, ‘You can’t come. You can’t do it. We don’t want you buying our land. We don’t want you taking the land and basically taking it off the market,’” Trump said, when asked how he would shield critical infrastructure in the United States and Pennsylvania from Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence..
Companies with primary investors in China own 349,442 acres of U.S. farmland as of the last day of 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The majority of this land is concentrated in five states, with Texas, North Carolina, and Missouri having the largest shares….