International U.S. to ban Chinese Purchases of US Farmland due to National Security Concerns.

[Hog-train]

Washington Post: U.S. to ban Chinese purchases of farmland, citing national security

Trump is set to do an executive order banning China from buying up anymore US farmland. This is in the wake of China already buying up 19 strategic locations next to US military bases.

In addition, 2 Chinese PHD scientists have been recently arrested for smuggling in a biological pathogen that would devastate our farmland and livestock. This is potential eco-terrorism.

As a response, Trump is also looking into revoking the student visas from China - especially in areas of high sensitivity. This is a major escalation with Beijing, but necessary IMO.

This is in stark contrast to Gavin Newsom who vetoed a passed bipartisan bill that prohibited foreign governments from buying up California farmland. Newsom got heavy criticism from liberal California lawmakers. Newsom obviously sold out somehow. Why else would he go against his own party to allow China and other countries from buying up California land?

 

[Evbo]

How has this not been the case before now? Strikes me as bizarre that citizens of a rival foreign power would ever be allowed, especially seeing as no one but Chinese are allowed to purchase property in China

 

[SandisLL]

Chinesse who does have a lot of money in China does have it just because China's KGB and Communist Party allowed them to have opportunity to earn a lot.
All these are under KGB and Communist Party ....

Obiviously sooner or later U.S lawmakers and President will get reality how dangerous is to allow chinesse, russian companies and investors to purchase ANY mortgage in U.S, not alone agricultural land.
It is threat for long term national security, yes.

 

[Fanu]

So according to that picture, China owns all of the land on largest Hawaii island?

 

[Hog-train]

How has this not been the case before now? Strikes me as bizarre that citizens of a rival foreign power would ever be allowed, especially seeing as no one but Chinese are allowed to purchase property in China

It's because foreign governments can legally bribe our politicians.

 

[Stoic1]

To argue against your own national security is racist and xenophobic. You fucking Nazis.

 

[Madmick]

Good. Far too late, but better late than never.

 

[sickc0d3r]

This is good. We should go all imminent domain and force them to sell back to our government what they already own, too.

 

[Mr Holmes]

@Deorum Its a good day.

 

[D3thr0n3d K1ng]

If they truly own all that land it's too late.

 

[Blayt7hh]

Yeah it’s about time.

 

[chardog]

this map is a bit sensational and it seems like the chinese own a LOT, and they might, I'm just trying to figure out what is the meaning of the map, is it to suggest that the chinese own a piece of land in these areas, are they the majority owners in these areas, do they own technical farmland and not other zonings?

 

[Starck]

How has this not been the case before now? Strikes me as bizarre that citizens of a rival foreign power would ever be allowed, especially seeing as no one but Chinese are allowed to purchase property in China

Nobody is allowed to purchase land in China. The building is purchased (in the form of a renewable decades-long lease from the government), and non-Chinese are allowed to do this too.

 

[Cole train]

Completely normal

 

[scoopj]

Chinesse who does have a lot of money in China does have it just because China's KGB and Communist Party allowed them to have opportunity to earn a lot.
All these are under KGB and Communist Party ....

Obiviously sooner or later U.S lawmakers and President will get reality how dangerous is to allow chinesse, russian companies and investors to purchase ANY mortgage in U.S, not alone agricultural land.
It is threat for long term national security, yes.

Yeah agree, not just agricultural.

This is a good decision by Trump, but OP (particularly the graphic) is deliberately misleading. China owns a tiny sliver of US agricultural land. In contrast, Canada owns more than the area of NH and VT combined.

That’s a lot of cabbage.

Meant to include this link:

How Much US Land Do China and Other Countries Really Own?

As of 2021, China owned less than 1% of all foreign-held land in the U.S. Canada, by contrast, held more than the entire area of Vermont and New Hampshire combined.

globalaffairs.org

 

[Yehudim]

So according to that picture, China owns all of the land on largest Hawaii island?

Presumably those are all counties they own land in, I am almost certain that the Chinese don't own all of land in Miami-Dade County but that is one of the highlighted area.

 

[Yehudim]

Yeah agree, not just agricultural.

This is a good decision by Trump, but OP (particularly the graphic) is deliberately misleading. China owns a tiny sliver of US agricultural land. In contrast, Canada owns more than the area of NH and VT combined.

That’s a lot of cabbage.

Meant to include this link:

How Much US Land Do China and Other Countries Really Own?

As of 2021, China owned less than 1% of all foreign-held land in the U.S. Canada, by contrast, held more than the entire area of Vermont and New Hampshire combined.

globalaffairs.org

Extending it beyond agricultural land probably is not in our favor. In many cases it's just free money for us. The Chinese have a bunch of millionaires & billionaires trying to get their money out of China, and we would basically be making it easier for the Chinese to control their own citizens by doing that.

 

[Long Dark Blues]

Good.

But not good enough, there are plenty of other foreign countries that own our agricultural land. Fucking get rid of ALL OF THEM.

Here is a link to an interactive map that you can filter based on foreign country, and drill down by state:

https://www.usda.gov/us-foreign-owned-ag-lands

 

[Yehudim]

Good.

But not good enough, there are plenty of other foreign countries that own our agricultural land. Fucking get rid of ALL OF THEM.

Here is a link to an interactive map that you can filter based on foreign country, and drill down by state:

https://www.usda.gov/us-foreign-owned-ag-lands

Is there a good reason we should get rid of all of them that doesn't involve the worship of farmland and views foreigners as unnecessarily polluting our land? You are aware that the US produces a surplus of food and that we are on average, fat as fuck?

 

[SurferH2O]

Add their purchase of land to their attempts to smuggle extremely harmful fungus into our country.



These two aliens have been charged with smuggling a fungus that has been described as a 'potential agroterrorism weapon' into the heartland of America.

China Asshole. Fuck them.