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The recent arrests of Chinese citizens at the University of Michigan have prepared concerns about agricultural lands and property owned by CCP in the United States, especially in Michigan, and caused some similarities to the current conflict between Iran and Israel.
Earlier this month, directed two Chinese citizens Smuggling claims The “dangerous biological nurse” in the United States to study at the University of Michigan in an incident described by the FBI director Cash Patel as “a realistic reminder that the Communist Party of China (CCP) continues to spread the lives of Americans and researchers to infiltrate our institutions and target our food supplies, an act that can extend our economy and their American life.”
Later, a third Chinese citizen has been arrested with university ties, and questions about China’s efforts to infiltrate and influence various sectors in the United States, including the purchase of agricultural lands, which were a growing concern at the country level.
A 2023 reports From the Ministry of Agriculture in the United States, I found that “foreign people have an interest in approximately 45 million acres of American agricultural lands,” which represents 3.5 % of all excellent agricultural lands and 2 % of all lands in the country.
New legislation aims to tell China “no” when purchasing American agricultural lands
Experts warn that the recent current events symbolize an invitation to “wake up” the threat of China to the United States. (Getty)
While China is not at the top of the list of countries in this report, the arrests in Michigan have pushed calls from Congress to ensure that CCP, which many see as the best geopolitical opponent in the country, does not buy agricultural lands in the United States.
Republican Senator Rikitz exclusively Tell Fox News Digital This week, China was buying American agriculture, “that is why we needed a growing feeling of vigilance about protecting our country.”
Rikits, along with Democratic Senator John Vitirman, presented the two parties Detecting foreign agricultural investment (AFIDA) Act of improvements that seeks to implement recommendations I published it Government Accountability Office in January 2024, which was found that AFIDA was not equipped to combat foreign ownership of American agricultural lands.
“Not only is Chinese land purchases – they are about arrival,” Michigan MP John Molinaar, Chairman of the House of Representatives Selection Committee on the strategic competition between the United States and CCP, told Fox News Digital.
“Even small parcels near the military bases or critical infrastructure constitute serious risks to national security. In my mother’s case, we have seen in terms of cases such as Gotion near Camp Grayling. We need complete transparency in those who buy lands and where should the Communist Party to hide behind chance companies in our country.”
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Chinese President Xi Jinping seizes his jacket as he stands to sing the national anthem at the closing session of the National People’s Conference held in the Grand People’s Hall in Beijing. (AP Photo/NG Han Guan)
The infringement of China on the cultivation of Michigan was enough attention to the Republican Deputy State Gina Johnsen Providing legislation Earlier this year, foreign opponents have banned the purchase of agricultural lands.
“The agricultural industry in our state is a pillar of our economy. My community is an agricultural society,” Junson said. Our farms provide food security, jobs and economic stability for countless population. However, there is increased concern about the loss of agricultural lands against anxiety countries. ”
In addition, Chinese agricultural lands became the subject of conversation in the wake of the disclosure that Israel’s attack on Iranian nuclear capabilities was supported by years of secret planning, monitoring and infiltration by Israeli intelligence.
The preventive operation, “AM Kelavi”, was the product of an unprecedented coordination between the Israeli Air Force, the Military Intelligence Directorate, and the country’s defense industries. For years, they worked “side by side” to collect the intelligence files needed to eliminate the most sensitive military and nuclear assets in Iran.
As part of this process, Israel was able to Create a drone Inside Iran, where Mossad’s agents regained them hiding the sites for use against Iranian sites.
Brian Keningham, President of Liberty Defense Company and former CIA, told the Israeli intelligence agency that the Israeli operation is a “waking up” call to the United States about what a foreign opponent such as China in the United States could implement.
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Smoke is rising from the construction of Iranian government television after an Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran, on Monday. (AP image)
“As an intelligence officer, a part of me says, I hope that the sources and methods of building this drone factories have not been disclosed inside the targeted countries,” Keningham said. “But on the other hand, it is an invitation to wake up, and we hope that our politicians will be, and are also linked, and if you are the administration, I will do this tie immediately and loudly with Trump’s border strategy.”
“Our borders are the place where these types of toxins, explosives, torches, three -dimensional printed weapons and ceramic weapons are likely to have already.
The FBI increases the monitoring of Iranian -backed activists in the United States where Trump weighs strikes, a senior law official Fox News said Friday.
In this report, this report contributed to Fox News Digit Digit Delay Digit Digit Diedri Delvis, Lucas Tomlinson and Evat Lushter in this report.
