U.S. Representative Chip Roy (R-Texas) on Friday introduced a bill intended to prevent members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from purchasing land in the United States.
The legislation is entitled the “Securing America’s Land from Foreign Interference Act” and would reduce the major influence that Communist China gains in the country through major land purchases — a phenomenon Roy describes as a major national-security threat.
Recently, in Roy’s home state, a Chinese-based energy company bought a 130,000-acre wind farm right beside a U.S. Air Force base.
Furthermore, Smithfield, one of America’s largest meat producers, controls nearly 150,000 acres of U.S. land despite being owned by a Chinese firm.
“In their quest for global domination, China has been buying up land and strategic infrastructure all over the world and in the United States,” Roy said in a statement. “Direct Chinese investment in the US economy is a major threat to the American way of life and requires that we take serious action to thwart the Chinese Communist party (CCP) from ever seizing control of strategically valuable domestic assets in the US.”
Roy’s legislation demands that the president take any necessary action to stop CCP members from purchasing land in the United States. Fellow Texas Republican lawmakers Representatives Lance Gooden and Randy Weber are co-sponsors of the bill.
China is rapidly buying up everything within sight in the United States, from companies to the media to the nation’s political class.
For example, the communist regime owns AMC entertainment (which makes it the world’s largest cinema owner) and has major stakes in the Wall Street investment bank Morgan Stanley and in Chesapeake Energy Corp.
As The New American has reported, “CCP mouthpiece China Daily filed a disclosure with the U.S. Department of Justice admitting that it had paid $19 million U.S. dollars to top American ‘news’ organizations. That includes about $12 million to leading newspapers that serve as mouthpieces for the globalist establishment and now, Communist China, such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.”
“The China Daily paper, a wholly owned propaganda mouthpiece for the murderous regime in Beijing, paid U.S. media outlets some $2 million just in 2020 to promote CCP talking points,” we added. “It paid almost $20 million throughout the Trump administration’s term in office so far, revealed official disclosures filed with U.S. authorities and required by federal law. Other newspapers listed as being on Beijing’s payroll include the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Houston Chronicle, and Foreign Policy.”
Chinese acquisition of American businesses interests has continued even as evidence continues to mount that COVID-19 was created in a lab in Wuhan, China.
A report authored by scientists Angus Dalgleish and Dr. Birger Sørensen notes that the two claim to have “prima facie” evidence of retro-engineering in China’ for a year.
While analyzing COVID-19 samples last year in an attempt to create a vaccine, Dalgleish and Sørensen discovered “unique fingerprints” in the virus that they say could only have arisen from manipulation in a laboratory.
They said they tried to publish their findings but were rejected by major scientific journals which were at the time resolute that the virus jumped naturally from bats or other animals to humans.
Even when former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove spoke out publicly saying the scientists’ theory should be investigated, the idea was dismissed as “fake news.”
Joe Biden’s picks for CIA chief, National Security Advisor, and Ambassador to China all have ties to the CCP.
Nicholas Burns, whom Biden wants representing the United States in China, has spent his career working closely with Beijing’s communist regime. His track record includes a position at a consulting firm known for employing Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials and serving as a board member for a Harvard University program that has partnered with China’s military.
Before being tapped to join the Biden White House, Burns was a senior counselor at the Cohen Group, a consulting firm started by William Cohen, who was secretary of defense during Bill Clinton’s second term.
Not only does the Cohen Group maintain a close working relationship with former CCP officials; many of the firm’s consultants are part of pro-China lobbying groups in D.C. The group has even participated in an advisory program with an entity that President Trump sanctioned due to human-rights abuses against Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
Joe Biden has been trying to move U.S. foreign policy away from the America First stance of his predecessor. Is the new standard “China First?”
