(Christopher Prosch, Headline USA) In the past month, China has sent over 50 warplanes into Taiwan’s airspace, fueling alarm and raising the possibility of open conflict that might inevitably force the US into another foreign war.
The Chinese government has demonstrated that they are prepared for rapid expansion through military means.
But on Australia’s ABC News, Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu stated that “Taiwan is prepared to fight back,” the Gatway Pundit reported.
But any Chinese territorial disputes that the US gets sucked into may not stay on foreign soil for long.
They may quickly spread to America’s own home turf—quite literally.
In recent years, China has been aggressively expanding its agricultural capacities beyond its own borders—ostensibly to safeguard the food supply of its own citizens.
The communist country boasts roughly 20% of the world’s population but only 7% of the world’s arable land.
The major problem is that China’s farmland has been disappearing at a very high rate because of development, erosion and desertification.
Because of this, China has been buying up substantial amounts of international farmlands. In America, since 2020, the Chinese investors have bought more than 190,000 acres in Ohio alone, reported American Military News.
In 2013, a Chinese company called WH Group bought Smithfield foods, one of the largest pork producers in the nation. Through the acquisition, the Chinese company instantly acquired over 150,000 acres of farmland, noted the American Conservative.
In response to this, six states (Hawaii, Iowa, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Dakota and Oklahoma) have banned foreign ownership of farm and ranchland.
But Joe Maxwell, former lieutenant governor of Missouri, said he is concerned that foreign investment will continue to increase as the current economic crisis leads to imbalances that give wealthy Chinese investors an upper-hand over family-run farms, the Associated Press reported.
Even before COVID shut down the economy and led to supply-chain issues, followed by the skyrocketing fuel costs and inflation of the Biden administration, twice as many farmers declared bankruptcy in 2018 than did in 2008, the AP noted.
China’s control over America’s food supply may be more than a means to feed its own hungry citizens. This could be the ultimate means for gaining leverage—as it has over America’s corporate, political, academic and other systems—to exert its own anti-democratic demands.
Because it is unlikely that the Biden administration—whom many suspect may be compromised by China—will step in to confront the issue, doing so may fall on the citizens of red states to demand common-sense protections of farmland, just as they have fought back at the grassroots level against issues like voter fraud and Critical Race Theory.
Other states must pass similar laws banning and outlawing any foreign country from owning American farmland.
The Chinese have made it clear that they are planning on expanding beyond just military means, and the American government needs to step up to stop them.
