New reports reveal that China is increasingly buying up more and more American farmland, and politicians on both political sides are taking notice.
According to evidenced provided by Politico, Chinese investors own roughly about $1.9 billion in farmland assets, which is approximately 192,000 acres worth, at the start of 2020. Though this ownership is less than compared to other nations where China has been buying up land, it is more evidence of a continuing trend of the Asian giant buying up more foreign farmland.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported in 2018 that China’s agricultural investments had grown more than tenfold than that of the United States.
‘The extensive Chinese land holdings in the U.S. have stirred calls to cut China off and stem the potential U.S. reliance on those Chinese landowners from both sides of the political aisle,’ says American Military News.
America cannot allow China to control our food supply.
Former Vice President Mike Pence said for the conservative Heritage Foundation
In his speech, Pence called for President Biden to “end all farm subsidies for land owned by foreign nationals.”
Minnesota and Iowa have laws in place that bars foreign ownership of farmland in their states.
Prior to the Democrat presidential primaries, Elizabeth Warren said she would support a national law using the template of Iowa’s laws to further safeguard foreign investors from buying land through “fake American buyers,” to circumvent land purchase rules.
The current trend in the U.S. is leading us toward the creation of a Chinese-owned agricultural land monopoly.
Rep. Dan Newhouse said in a recent House Appropriations hearing.
American Military News reports, ‘Newhouse raised his concerns about Chinese land ownership as he proposed an amendment in a new agricultural appropriations bill, H.R. 4356, that would block any new agricultural purchases by companies that are wholly or partly controlled by the Chinese government and would ban existing Chinese-owned farms in the U.S. from drawing from federal agricultural support programs.’
According to the Trends Journal, Rep. Grace Meng gave some pushback to the bill, saying that the amendment would “perpetuate already rising anti-Asian hate.” She offers that lawmakers should similarly restrict other foreign buyers instead.
However, trying to legislate this has its own challenges.
President of Family Farm Action, Joe Maxwell, told Politico that foreign buyers could still establish a Limited Liability Company (LLC) designated as an American owner to circumvent reporting requirements, while still maintaining ownership rights through their corporate structure. Therefore, searching through tiered corporate structures would take a notable amount of time and present lots of word for regulatory agencies to track.
It’s a massive undertaking to verify who really owns [the land]. These foreign interests are pretty smart. They use different business structures to further conceal it.
Joe Maxwell
Moreover, Maxwell is also warning that these alien investors could outbid American buyers for land that is being auctioned up, effectively and easily pricing out the potential for new prospecting farmers in America.
When this land changes hands, they’re going to gobble it up. These investments artificially increase the value of that land, which then denies young and beginning farmers opportunities to farm.
Joe Maxwell
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[1] Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. [2] Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. [3] We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. [4] We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. [5] Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. [6] We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. [7] Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. [8] Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. [9] We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. Lamentations 5:1-9
WinePress readers that I have occasionally said to read the book of Lamentations; and while it is certainly not a joyous book, it spells out what is happening in America right now, and will be much more exacerbated when the death shot really kicks in this winter.
If you have not figured it out yet, China is, has been, and will continue to eat our lunch. America is done: and that is not an hyperbolic statement in the slightest. Our land has been turned over to foreign nations, and not just China alone.
We reported in March that a reporter questioned Jen Psaki about an executive order passed by Joe Biden to give China access to the American power grid. Psaki said she’d “circle back” to that question, but never did or will. China has America wrapped around its finger. The Chinese dragon ate the bald eagle a longtime ago.
And it’s not just China and other alien lands buying up our land, what about the domestic buyers that are tapping out Americans? You got people like these geeky-dweebo devils like Bill Gates who owns the most farmland in America, and so many others like him who are buying up the farmland, and the international firms, central and international banks, private equity groups buying up the debt and real estate here in America. Seems our “representatives” forgot to mention that.
Or how about Pence? This trend was going on greatly under his and Trump’s watch. Why was nothing done them?
And you see, that’s the thing: the representatives of this country only represent the banks and the corporations. If you can’t accept that truth then you’ll never figure out why nothing gets done in America, and the laws only hurt its people.
So, as for these proposals in light of China buying our land, I see it going two different ways: Nothing. The political liars will talk about it, they’ll act like they care, but nothing will get done.
Or, the lawmakers will pass, or at least work towards, passing sweeping legislature that will seek to “solve” the problem by essentially closing off all avenues for prospecting buyers from purchasing large plots of land, or land that is cheap in value to them (as to solve that LLC and corporate red tape problem).
Agenda 2030: You’ll Own Nothing And Be Happy
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Reports are that China is bulldozing ancient villages & paving farmland, moving millions into cities, & planning to move many more by 2025. FEMA has a huge order in for food rations through 2026. I immediately thought of what’s been written here about the ‘smart’ cities (more like tyrannical, absolutely controlled death traps!), & the reports on Gates buying up farmland while all these globalists who’ve used international business law & treaties to make endruns around the Constitution & laws meant to protect the interests of American citizens for decades (and by design) are investing, and encouraging investment in, the fake meat with him, and Israel in the forefront of this thing.
It’s hard to envision & reconcile how the China, WEF/UN, global corporatist thing meshes with Israel, & yet fulfills Gog-Magog. Perhaps Israel will grow too trusting of these new partners & let down her guard to share in the US’s fate as their protecting, enabling partner up to this point. The many Jews in this land must yet be gathered, chased, back to Israel by something. Famine would fit the bill: as would vicious antiSemitism.
I understand the craft Zionists are proud & covetous, wholeheartedly sodomite or affirming of such, promoting a sort of religious humanism with Rome….but confess that Jew-hating antiSemitism & hatefully & slanderously broadbrushing those who see Israel for what she is, & yet who pray for the peace of Jerusalem, & do not seek her destruction as those who bless her are blessed & those who curse her are cursed: for the Lord’s and for the fathers’ sake as written….troubles me. It portends even more evil & wrath of God on those persons & nations that do so.
There has been a steady move, headed by Reconstructionists, back towards acceptance of Rome’s eschatology (kingdom building & triumphalism…which would include foolhardy Zionism beyond what is written & right), law-keeping rooted in wrong division & pride (Steven Anderson & his stoning nonsense on one hand, with social justice, and the Noahide laws on the other, on the part of some Jews); and Rome’s ancient Jew-hate & set-up’s. After all, it was Rome seeking to keep her claim to be new Jerusalem, replacing the Jews, by using the Jewish bankers as middlemen to get around violating the usury laws which Rome claimed to keep. Whenever they got too powerful, some excuse for a pogrom or crusade could always be found….the latest that of Hitler’s third reich unholy Roman empire, neighbors massacred & their property seized. I have this discomforting feeling such sentiment is being fomented again, along with covetousness & bloodlust. The Arian/Aryan craft of European Rome, Orthodox White Russians, high caste Hindu and the Arab share a lot of common uniting ground there, as well as the man-god & at-one-ment quasi-pantheism justification for beliefs in human divinity, ascension to divinity, evolving to divinity etc. In fact, that was part of why Gregory was able to use the Arian barbarian Saxon ‘Christians’ against the ancient Christians of Wales & Britania. Britannia isn’t what the peoples who lived there called themselves nationally, including those who were spiritually & biblically Christian.
There are TWO groups who say they are Jews but are not spiritually, and the flesh availeth nothing there…..even though there are three people groups in the world today: the Jews, the Gentiles and the church of God in which there is neither Jew nor Gentile, but Christ in all & over all. 1 Corinthians 10:32; Galatians & Hebrews. Are we approaching another such time? True Christians are ever in the ‘collateral damage’ when the Roman empire acts & calls its actions ‘Christian’ and justified.
Oh, I forgot that Jewish Henry Kissinger, with white craft Gentile elites in their thinktanks & UN meetings, was on the record as saying that an artificially created famine, or food control, could be used to bring the peoples of the world where they would not willingly go. Among those loudly calling him out on that were both Jews & Gentiles in the US and around the world. They had to build their trap & system very gradually, generously baiting it with sin & ill-gotten gain, to avoid arousing suspicion until they’d amassed enough power that it didn’t matter anymore. God was merciful, & faithful to warn. Men of this age presumed as the Jews before them, resulting in those mournful passages in Lamentations.
I didn’t understand why they used to despisingly say that I sounded like a fundamentalisssssst, or a Jeremiah. And my husband was stunned when they asked him to teach adult Sunday School & he used the Baptist circular. The teaching was in Jeremiah, & the pastor’s wife at the time stated emphatically that she ‘hated’ the book of Jeremiah. He was speechless. We were naive, and a mess, with much to learn biblically & concerning the state not just of the ‘secular’, but in the churches! Now I recognize the Lord’s keeping: in spite of ourselves, & surely not because of ourselves.
He kept Daniel & the three Hebrew children in the first judgment beginning in the house of God, though it surely wasn’t fun for them or without tribulation. He can keep us in this, too, howsoever far in he allows us to go, & he did promise us that we would have tribulation in the world, though he has overcome the world. The just still live by faith.
I am so thankful God is raising up people to preserve hard copy Bible, teaching & evangelizing tools….putting it in men’s hearts to do. It’s so long been a concern & prayer as these things in the world move forward. We have done what we could in this regard, and I am sure there are others out there also doing so as the digital trap was exposed. We must all do what we can where we are, passing on precious truth to the young & the next generation…taking the Gospel, contending for the faith, loving the truth & offering it to whosoever still will. Praying for that endeavor & wisdom as history unfolds.
Oh, & one more thing: America isn’t the only nation to have the eagle as their emblem or the symbology so blatantly displayed in Washington DC….and in Vatican City. It should also be noted that historically, Britain has used the lion…as Persia & Babylon; and the red dragon: as Babylon & China…though calling it St. George’s dragon. Make of that what we will, I’m thinking we won’t know the certain surety of how the true and anti with regard to these things will play out historically & prophetically til it happens: even as we’re called to watch.
Mt 24:28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
Lu 17:37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.