Communist China and Chinese corporations are aggressively acquiring land near U.S. military installations, a blatant threat to national security that has been met with shockingly little resistance from Washington. This is not a partisan issue; it is a matter of protecting American sovereignty and military readiness.
Foreign adversaries purchasing farmland and property adjacent to our most sensitive military bases creates obvious espionage and surveillance risks. It provides potential staging areas for intelligence operations. And it gives a hostile foreign power leverage over critical agricultural supply chains.
The scope of Chinese land purchases in the United States has grown dramatically in recent years, with acquisitions strategically concentrated near military installations in multiple states. Current federal law provides inadequate tools to screen and block these purchases before they happen.
I support legislation that would ban adversarial nations from purchasing land within a significant radius of military installations, critical infrastructure, and sensitive research facilities. We need mandatory disclosure requirements for all foreign land purchases, a retroactive review of existing holdings with authority to force divestiture where national security demands it, and coordination with state governments to close loopholes.
This is about common sense national defense. No foreign adversary should be able to buy a front-row seat to our military operations simply by writing a check. I’ll fight to close this dangerous gap in our national security.