CCP Member Owns Timber Land In Oregon
When The Fufeng Group, an animal nutrition supplier, bought a mere 370 acres of North Dakota farmland in 2022, it made news because the land was near the Grand Forks Air Force Base. The proximity to sensitive military technology and communications raised concerns from the US Air Force. The company, owned by high level Chinese, planned to build a large-scale corn milling plant on the land before local officials refused to give them the necessary building permits. It is unclear what The Fufeng Group now plans to do with the land.
However, when a Chinese billionaire and member of the Chinese Communist Party purchased 198,000 acres in Oregon, the national media paid little attention. In 2015, Tianqiao Chen acquired the prime timber land in Deschutes County, Oregon for $85 million ($430 per acre). He also owns another parcel of prime timberland (33,000 acres) in the same Central Oregon county which is currently on the market for $95 million ($2,800 per acre). It is unclear when Chen purchased this land.
Chen is the single biggest Chinese landowner in America. Combined, other Chinese owners only have 380,000 acres, but the vast majority is farmland.
Foreign ownership of agricultural lands means foreign control of America’s food supply. This has come to the attention of the American people and, belatedly, become a political issue, with particular attention on Chinese ownership. In July, the Senate passed a bill that would have limited farmland sales to foreign nationals from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, but the bill was not signed into law.
Foreign nationals held an interest in over 43.4 million acres of US agricultural land as of December 31, 2022, up from 40 million acres on December 31, 2021, according to the USDA. This is 3.4 percent of all privately held agricultural land and nearly 2 percent of all land in the United States. Roughly half of US states currently restrict foreign land ownership, and many states are currently revisiting if and how to further restrict sale of farm land to foreign nationals.
SHOULD AMERICANS WORRY ABOUT OUR FOOD SUPPLY?
In recent years the powers that be have made significant changes to food production and food supply. Most of these plans include reducing food production so they can begin rationing, that is, controlling what, when and if we eat. I will leave my readers to speculate their endgame. But, there is no doubt that the Biden Regime is involved:
Those land owners are plicks!
One can make several comments about ownership of American land by foreigners (CCP) and enemies (Bill Gates), the first of which is that it ought to be outlawed, period.
As to foreigners owning land, both pros and cons exist. The pro is that the money we send to China for goods we refuse to produce, is recycled here and re-invested in our land. The con is similar to the 1970s reaction in Oregon of Californians moving there and pricing Oregonians out of their own housing, enabled by the real estate and housing boom in CA, which gave rise to the bumper sticker “Don’t Californicate Oregon.”
The solution was demonstrated by many countries in S America in the 1960s, when they expropriated American companies and land in a massive “Yankee Go Home” campaign.
We’ve got China’s money. Time to expropriate the land.
As to enemies like Mr. Gates, subject of the current book “The Gates of Hell. Why Bill Gates is the Most Dangerous Man in the World,” simply go back to homesteading laws: if you don’t improve make use of the land, it reverts to the previous owner; in the 19th C, that was the Feds. Today, it can be the farmer from whom this enemy bought the land. Said farmer gets the land back and keeps the money to pay the grift congress applies to it. Gates is leaving it fallow as he wants us to eat fake meat and bugs as he destroys our middle class.
Either, of course, would require an intelligent, pro-American government, the lack of which ought to be an even larger concern and cause for action.