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This is actually a thing, though. Chinese interests own a huge amount of land in the US, for example, and they're buying more every year [0]. [0] https://ameri
by all2 5y ago
This is actually a thing, though. Chinese interests own a huge amount of land in the US, for example, and they're buying more every year [0].
[0] https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/07/china-is-buying-billions-in-us-farmland-and-lawmakers-are-scrambling-to-try-to-stop-them/ https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/07/china-is-buying-bil...
- rmah 5y agoThat article says "As of the start of 2020, Chinese investors owned about 192,000 acres of U.S. agricultural land valued at about $1.9 billion". That's out of 900mil acres of farmland in the USA. So about 0.02% -- hardly a "huge amount".
- all2 5y agoTrue. For added perspective, the top 100 largest land owners possess about 40 million acres throughout the US [0]. [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-largest-landowners-in-us/ https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-largest-landowners-i...