White House spokesman John Kirby dismissed questions about foreign land buys close to U.S. military bases and potentially tied to the Chinese Communist Party, calling it a “homeownership issue.”
Kirby, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, came to the question during a daily briefing Tuesday, about Chinese entities “buying up U.S. real estate” including farms around military installations, given that some could link to the country’s ruling regime.
“Is that on the administration’s radar?” asked Al Jazeera reporter Kimberly Halkett during the Sept. 13 conference. “And what is being done perhaps to study this or to protect Americans from making sure that homes remain affordable and so on?” she continued….