South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem on Dec. 13 announced new proposed legislation to restrict farmland purchases by foreign countries, namely communist China.
“With this new process, we will be able to prevent nations who hate us—like Communist China—from buying up our state’s agriculture land,” Noem said in a press release.
“We cannot allow the Chinese Communist Party to continue to buy up our nation’s food supply, so South Dakota will lead the charge on this vital national security issue.”
The proposed plan marked the latest step by the Republican governor to crack down on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) influence in her state. Last week, Noem banned government employees and contractors from using TikTok, a popular short-video app owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, on their state-owned devices due to concerns that the vast swaths of Americans’ personal data collected by the app are being used by the communist regime….