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Rep. Newhouse: Time is now to prevent China from gaining a foothold in America's domestic food production

Rep. Dan Newhouse weighs in on what can be done to stop China from building a monopoly of foreign ownership of agricultural lands.NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the greatest geopolitical threat that we face, and their threats have been growing exponentially in recent years. 

Whether surveilling our nation in our own backyard, committing genocide against their people, obscuring the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, stealing our intellectual property, bullying Taiwan, or fueling the fentanyl engine plaguing our communities – the CCP is deliberately exerting a pattern of aggression against the frontiers of the free world. 

And while no one has been watching, the CCP has slowly been accruing acres of our nation’s most vital, yet finite resource in rural America – our farmland – and that should be concerning for all Americans. 

A farmer harvests corn near Farmingdale, Illinois, Aug. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)