China is exploiting loopholes to buy up U.S. farmland with the aim of sabotaging the U.S. national security, warned Ross Kennedy, founder of U.S.-based logistics and supply chain advisory Fortis Analysis and senior fellow at Security Studies Group.
Reports have emerged that Chinese companies in recent years have ramped up purchasing U.S. farmland for various projects ranging from green energy to agriculture. The local authorities reasoned that they green-lighted these ventures in the hopes that the projects would help generate jobs and tax revenue in their localities.
“Whenever these Chinese companies come to the United States with the promises of economic development, they’re exploiting gaps in our own industrial manufacturing and infrastructure base,” Kennedy told “China in Focus” on NTD, a sister media outlet of The Epoch Times, on Dec. 17….