Why is China buying up American farmland?

[Daniela1982]

While Sleepy Joe and Comrade Kamala have been fumbling around...

Communist China has been quietly buying up prime US farmland at breakneck speed.

In fact, the Chinese Communist Party and its globalist allies have already snatched up a staggering 43 MILLION acres of American farmland.

Even Bill Gates couldn't resist jumping into this historic land grab...

And according to an NBC investigation, he's bought up so much land...

He is now the largest private farmland owner, with enough land to build The Pentagon 8,000 times over.

Picture that for a moment.

This sure smells fishier than a Wuhan wet market, right?

I mean, why would a tech billionaire and a communist regime want so much American land?

Now, you'd think that the mainstream media would ask why these globalist, anti-dollar players are grabbing our land...

While also waging financial war on the petrodollar.

Because after all, it's not like China has run out of land...

And it's definitely not because Bill Gates wants to replace his tech billions with the back-breaking work of running a farm.

The media, of course, won't touch this explosive story...

But experts are not sugarcoating it and they're warning Americans:

"This is a two-pronged attack to starve America into submission and dethrone the US Dollar."

They want to build a Chinese version of Disneyland

They want to control our food supply

The Chinese and Bill Gates are in a contest to who can buy the most land.

What is your theory?

[DJB72]

The most dangerous thing to the "elite" is a population that has a food, energy and water supply they don't control. Why do you think in the last 150 years since Rockefeller started controlling the "education" system to make kids used to doing mind-numbing and meaningless tasks unquestioningly, controlled by a bell like his factories used, most people have become dumber?

At the dawn of the 20th Century most families lived in rural areas, had food security by growing a few simple crops, keeping chickens and sometimes a cow or goat and although there was a slightly higher child mortality rate, most lived productive lives into their 70s or older.

Food was canned at home in glass, or dried for long term, and no "preservatives" were needed. Herbs like dandelion, burdock, nettle and other things we've been taught are "pests" we're grown for medicinal purposes. It's no surprise that the same company that makes "Roundup" weedkiller also produces the pharmaceutical drugs that treat the symptoms the plants "Roundup" kills used to cure. There's no profit in a cure.

If China wants to defeat America in a coming conflict, what better way than by destroying the way they feed the army? An army marches on it's stomach...

[Lliam]

I'm impressed, dude. Yes to everything you mentioned.

[DJB72]

@Lliam I'm a student of history. I firmly believe if you don't understand why history played out how it did, that's what condemns you to repeat the same mistakes they made.

[Lliam]

I agree. I'm a history buff, as well. History books and biographies are my preferred reading. I also get amazing information on line from some intelligent and highly informed friends from around the world.

[Lurix]

China buying up American farmland is a pretty big deal. It's not just about them wanting a piece of the pie; it's about control and influence. When foreign countries, especially a rival like China, start owning a lot of our farmland, it raises concerns about food security and what that means for local economies.


Think about it: they could mess with prices or even affect how we produce food here. It’s not just about the money; it’s about our independence and how much we want foreign entities to have a say in something as vital as agriculture.


Plus, it can impact jobs and communities tied to farming. So, yeah, it’s a complicated issue that deserves attention. It’s important to keep an eye on who owns our resources and why.

[Curmudgeon]

It may also be an inflation hedge move. They KNOW the Bidenflation has turned the USD into funny money, and real estate holds it's value in such situations, even if if not as portable as precious metals or as trendy as Bitcoin. There was a lot of foreign investment in US real estate by wealthy Arabs in the Carterflation of the 1970's, and one wonders if this "Deja Vu All Over Again".

[Syntosi]

Newsflash. China is not actually buying up US farmland at "breakneck speed". First of all, The total amount of foreign held US farmland is like 3-4% and that includes ALL countries.

Furthermore, China is not even a major owner. Of the 3-4% of foreign held US farmland, China only owns like 1% of THAT. So yeah, calm your tits lady you are freaking out over literally nothing.

[RowdyYates]

Are you an American?

[Syntosi]

@RowdyYates What? You got nothing to say that would contradict me and instead have to hold out hope that I am not an Americans so that you can claim that I know nothing or something equally childish?

[RowdyYates]

You just answered me. Thanks.

[Syntosi]

@RowdyYates And you just answered me, thanks.

[RowdyYates]

UK? LOL

[Syntosi]

@RowdyYates No. Dont insult me like that.

[Daniela1982]

@Syntosi Tell that to the media which is where this info comes from. As far as this statement goes: " So yeah, calm your tits lady you are freaking out over literally nothing." Be nice now. No need to be rude.

[Syntosi]

Very well, I won't be rude then. And yes, the media lied to you.

Here is the latest report I could find without giving up on being lazy:
www.fsa.usda.gov/.../2020_afida_annual_report.pdf

To quote:
Canadian investors own the largest amount of reported foreign-held agricultural and non-agricultural
land, with 32 percent, or 12.4 million acres (report 1B). Foreign persons from an additional four
countries, the Netherlands with 13 percent, Italy with 7 percent, the United Kingdom with 6 percent, and
Germany with 5 percent, and the collectively held 12 million acres or 31 percent of the foreign-held
acres in the United States. The remaining 13.9 million acres, or 36 percent, of all reported foreign-held
agricultural and non-agricultural land, are held by various other countries. For example, China held
352,140 acres, which is slightly less than 1 percent of foreign-held acres.

It is simply not an issue.

[Daniela1982]

It could be an issue depending on if there is enough water available to be able to grow anything. You could have a million acres of farmland, but without water to grow crops it is nothing more than an albatross around your neck. You still have to pay taxes on that land. Why do you think farmers tend to go bust? It costs them more to grow food than for what they can get for their crops - or lack of them in a drought.

[Syntosi]

The reason farmers are going bust is because instead of innovating and becoming more efficient they have mostly just relied on government handouts to keep them in business. As a result farming is both behind in infrastructure and innovation since there has not been much demand for progress.

Things like GMO's has been a step in the right direction but I am sure you noticed the immediate backlash that followed. GMO's are also somewhat of a developmental dead-end since whenever someone actually does make a major step forward they instantly patent it and sit on the patent for as long as they can. That means others can't combine different patented innovations or further enhance an innovation to the next level.

Farming is perhaps the single most industry being held down and prevented from advancing by circumstance and bad politics.

[RowdyYates]

@daniela1982

You are way more kind than me. Your question (s) are always valid. I hate the fact that any percent of American farmland is sold to China. This rude asshole says it's OK, because it's a small percentage. That tells me that he's not American.

Even this biggest asshole in America, wouldn't tell you to "Calm your tits." He's a Brit or a German.

[Syntosi]

@RowdyYates? I dont know where you are from but you must be living in a slice of heaven because god damn do you have a biased opinion on the temperament of the average American.

Also USA is a free market. People from other countries can buy land in USA. Yes, that includes people from China. You know what? Why am I even explaining this to you? You are obviously not going to get it regardless.

[RowdyYates]

Calm your tits, fuckhead.

[Daniela1982]

And droughts. I remember in a prolonged drought in Calif. Decades old Orange and Almond trees died because they could get no water. They actually had to ration water to growers. By the time the water got to the end of the California Aqueduct, the water was a trickle.

[Syntosi]

@RowdyYates There is the American charm that I know and love. Dont you fucking "Even this biggest asshole in America, wouldn't tell you to "Calm your tits."" me you poser.

[Syntosi]

@daniela1982
The droughts are self-imposed. Putting aside climate change for a moment, the actual reason USA is overall suffering from water shortages all over the place is the lack of forward planning. USA is blessed with plenty of rivers and clean water sources which provided a buffer. The problem is that having a big reserve allows you to run a massive deficit without suffering from the consequences.

What people considered "Normal" water usage was in actuality heavily overuse of the local water resources and when the large reserves are finally depleted.. Well.. the accusations starts flying.

The irony is that all these things could easily have been solved if politicians took some responsibility and started the work on solutions 20-50 years ago but there just were no urgency to do anything when they had the chance.

[Daniela1982]

@Syntosi I guess you didn't know that California had a severe drought where all reservoirs were down at the lowest level ever. Lake Mead was in the same straights and couldn't even make electricity at Boulder Dam because of the low water levels. In fact, from the time the water left Lake Isabella until the time it got to Bakersfield, it was nothing but a trickle. That is why a lot of the crops in Arvin and Lamont failed and the aforementioned trees had to be uprooted because they were kaput.

[Syntosi]

Yeah, that is climate change. Enjoy. However, that would not have been an issue had politicians foreseen this being an issue back when it became obvious that it would be. Droughts are not new and as a result we have spent much of human history perfecting methods to combat them. If people in ancient times could, so too can modern day America... if the politicians wanted to.

Sure, reservoirs and water sources like lakes can become drained, that is within expectations, what is the plan of action to protect society? America does not have one. Why? Dont you think that is strange?

[lightbulb27]

diverisfy and own one thing of value... land.

been doing this long time. Japan secured some farms I know of... they get all the soybeans grown on those fields... it's exactly what they want for their food. China probably do same. Wouldn't shock me if their spy balloons were looking for good land.

ah the stupidity of Americaca.

[Stevepro68]

Fear is a marketing tool that is used to keep the masses controlled and afraid. I don't care who's is pushing it. If a narrative either makes you mad or afraid be very very suspicious. This narrative has both and is just non specific enough that my experience it is mostly BS or exaggerated.

[Syntosi]

Oh its complete BS. Only like 3% of USAs farmland is held by foreign owners and China only holds about 1% of that. Which means China only holds about 0.03% of US farmland if I did my napkin math correctly.

This is an old conspiracy theory that got so little traction that people did not even notice it back then.

[exitseven]

they will grow food here and ship it to china using the excess capacity on all the barges that bring chinese made goods to the US and go back empty. Americans are curring their own throats.

[Syntosi]

Chinese shipping does not go back empty and the extremely tiny amount of farmland that China actually owns in USA would not contribute anything meaningful anyways. Stop lying.

[exitseven]

@Syntosi there is a barge bigger than 3 football fields that goes from China to the port of LA practically awash in cheaply made Chinese goods and it goes beck practically empty. This has alarmed ne over the last 20 years. I was happy to hear that President Trump shares my concerns.

[Syntosi]

Actually I did read something about this recently. During Covid19 the shipping industry got screwed over and the flow of containers became unbalanced. In other words, containers had been built up at certain endpoint locations and not returned to be refilled so the exporters could not ship anything. This "container shortage" took a while to sort out with ships running around with empty containers to the places they were needed but its not a normal occurrence.

[exitseven]

@Syntosi the chinese will be shipping food back to china since their water and land has been so polluted it can no longer grow their own food.

[Syntosi]

No they ship food back because they dont have modern agriculture and pushed most of their population to major cities where they could work in manufacturing.

In other words, they removed people from producing food and those that are still left is horribly inefficient and can't make up for the difference with modern farming techniques and industrial equipment. Also does not help that their soil is not particularly fertile either so they need massive amounts of fertilizer.

[NaultD]

The demand of soybeans is crazy high in east Asia. usa is the largest farmland mass and perfect for soybeans. Remember China is 1/3 desert.

In the same way usa is obsessed with bbananas. but can't grow them in mass domesticly.

[NaultD]

Also it's impossible to buy land in china in anyway. So the capitalist class in china goes to usa to buy land to invest in because land in general is one of the stronger investment opportunity.

[ManOnFire]

So that they can make money off of Americans' unbreakable weed habit🙂

https://www.youtube.com/embed/xXkCuRo3njc

[RowdyYates]

The only thing that makes any sense is that both China and Ukraine have dirt on Biden.

[RowdyYates]

Biden let the Chinese set up secret police and police stations in the US. And you heard it yourself; Kamala can't think of anything she would have done differently than Biden.

[Astarlessnightsky]

Money, owning land is a great source of income. So capitalists are buying it, hoping its increasing their wealth even more. Just like anything else.

[Likes2drive]

They definitely want to control our food supply, it should be illegal for a foreign nation to buy land here, as for bill gates buying it , maybe he is trying to get ahead of the Chinese so we either buy food from him or them

[Massageman]

To have (some sort of a) voice in our nation's operation.

To make profits.

To have several bases of operations to spread their crap in our country.

To exert influence.

[gatixek710]

I really don't see that China has a lot of leverage. Owning a chunk of land you can't defend isn't much ownership.

[RowdyYates]

I saw the job description of those 87,000 IRS agents. They will be armed and must be willing to use lethal force. Sounds like a private army to me. Maybe Kamala will protect their American farmland.

And let's not forget that the left said the right was fear mongering over the Chinese balloon hovering over our military bases for a week. Some dumb bitch told me that the right was afraid of some harmless balloon.

[Syntosi]

Its not for leverage and its not a lot either. They own like 0.03% of US farmland and is way behind most other countries that actually owns more.

[gatixek710]

@RowdyYates Oh yeah, I had forgotten about the biden administration allowing the chinese to freely spy on the US There's so many fuckups my brain can only hold so many.

Those 87k agents are too busy busting your teen babysitter because she didn't file taxes on the $601 you gave her last year.

[goaded]

What proportion of the country is that? How many acres in the country?

[Anonymous]

Land is a relatively solid investment item as unlike money they don't make any more of it. As long as property taxes isn't too high.

[Surely]

If they buy us. They won’t have to fight us for it. Makes you wonder how blind or crooked our politicians are. Doesn’t it!

[Knightwatch27]

China's been engaging in outsourcing for decades, in Africa, South America etc.

[Anonymous]

They probably want Chinese version of Disneyland, for Chinese pioneer kids.

[NathanDavis]

everyone should be buying land...

[AviatorTom]

Simple... because they can!

[eagle1951]

they want to control America