BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE 

Do you get tired of hearing about China? Now we have floating surveillance balloons over our country. We are yet to know for sure what this is about, but time will tell. China is probably scouting out the next land or business purchase. They may have come up with an easy way to determine which military bases have available adjacent land. It doesn’t matter; if it’s for sale, they can come up with enough money to buy the property. All they have to do is to keep piling up the money from everything they sell to the United States.

Alarms went off in Washington when the Fufeng Group, a Chinese agricultural company, bought 300 acres of land and set up a milling plant last spring in Grand Forks, N.D. The plant is a 20-minute drive from an Air Force base that, according to North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven, hosts a space mission that “will form the backbone of U.S. military communications across the globe.” Source WSJ

Ten years ago, Smithfield Foods was purchased by China’s leading pork producer, Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd. (now called WH Group Ltd.), for $4.72 billion.

Keep in mind China has 1.5 billion people. This requires a lot of people to feed. China would love to gain as much of our farmland as possible to gain more control of our food production. This is one area where China really needs us. Our agricultural exports to them increased by over 27% from 2020 to 2021. They won’t need us if they can gain control of our farmland. It’s also a plus for them if they can have it close to our military bases. This provides a twofold benefit for them. In the middle of the cornfield, they can watch everything we are doing or even attempt to thwart what we are doing.