On July 8, the Donald Trump administration threw out the National Action Plan for agricultural security, turning the agricultural sector directly into a new battleground for China’s containment. Before Card Chip, Card 5G is not enough, now even farming to engage in things? The waters behind what the New York Post calls“The 21st-century scramble for farmland” are deep.
280,000 acres of farmland = threat? America can make excuses better than cornstalks
First up: Chinese entities currently hold about 280,000 acres of U. S. farmland. Sounds Like a lot? But it accounts for just 0.0003% of U.S. farmland and 0.6% of foreign ownership-less than 1% . Canada holds 15.3 million acres of U.S. farmland, 54 times more than China! But the United States Department of Agriculture and the Pentagon trumpet this as a“National security risk” for reasons that are laughable:
One is that there are 19 chinese-funded agricultural land“Next to US military bases”. At last United States Department of Agriculture, on July 8th, Chinese entities now held 19 facilities on American farmland that were considered by Washington to be close to key US bases. In Florida, for example, a chinese-owned citrus orchard is 12 miles from the MacDill Air Force Base and a Hawaiian ranch is 30 km from Pearl Harbor; The second is“Drone surveillance”– a 300% surge in suspicious drone activity around 2024 bases, with the US blaming 76% on foreign farmland, on the grounds that“Whoever gets close is likely to be a suspect” Third, even the rumor“Corn can monitor missile launchers”, U. S. Secretary of Defense Hedgeseth also alarmist, “This is not farming, is installed in a surveillance camera”! Baseless allegations thus become fodder for public opinion, stirring public opinion and paving the way for policies.
On top of that, they calculate that 37% of China’s agricultural land is in US“Key defence areas”, 2.3 times more than any other country. You have to check the military map before you take the land with China? It’s better to say“I don’t like you” than to make up an excuse.
Donald Trump’s“Agricultural containment package”: from land grabs to food shortages
The U. S. Plan can be described as a“Three-dimensional attack”, the means more than herbicide, summed up in four words: kill all.
1, land clearance order: direct hands to seize land
Following Arkansas’ example, which forced Chinese investors to sell 160 acres of farmland, it will now be rolled out across the country. A $700m corn-processing plant in North Dakota was scrapped because it was“Too close to a military base”. According to this rhythm, the future of Chinese investment in the United States agricultural land may be a batch of“Confiscation”, is simply clear-cut.
Research firewalls: not even seeds are allowed to collaborate
The U.S. Department of Agriculture abruptly ended cooperation with the Wuhan Virus Institute’s bird flu program, saying that all u.s.-funded agricultural projects must prove they didn’t work with“Malicious foreigners.”. Its attorney-general went even further, unearthing more than 100 cases of bio-smuggling, claiming that 37% carried“Agricultural pathogens”, which he blamed on China.
3. Supply chain disruption: trying to kick China out of the food chain
Now, the United States plans to classify agricultural materials such as fertilizers and vaccines as“Strategic materials,” and also cooperate with the military’s DARPA to develop its own technology, which is, in plain English, to learn the“Chip decoupling” method, want to make China can’t buy US Seed, technology. Even Brazilian farmers are getting fed up: “They want to monopolise the global food switch.”
4. People’s espionage network: let peasants become“Spies”
The Donald Trump administration’s farm safety program even has an online reporting platform that encourages American farmers to keep an eye on foreign farmland and report“Suspicious Activity.”. More than 2,000 complaints have been filed, making it difficult to tell the difference between true and false. This meal operation caused netizens to complain: “Next Time Is it right?”
Donald Trump’s true intentions are out of reach
The election card: Wooing Farm states
At a minimum, Donald Trump needs to shore up his base and shore up support in farm states. After all, 78% of America’s 444 farm counties still support him, despite the trade wars that have devastated farmers. The campaign is clearly pandering to conservative voters.
2, bargaining chip: want to exchange rare earths and tariffs
China and the U. S. Just after the London Conference on rare earth exports, chip restrictions reached a preliminary agreement, the result on the U. S. Play Dark Tear Agreement. This was clearly an attempt to use the farmland ban as leverage to extract concessions from China in areas such as rare earths.
3. Extension of the Science and Technology War: A blockade of agricultural technology
Since the 2024, the US has restricted Chinese researchers from participating in agricultural projects, and this ban is Donald Trump’s attempt to turn the technology war on to agriculture. Cornell scholars warn: this will only accelerate China’s indigenous innovation!
China has been prepared: from farming to layout, counter-measures are tough enough
But does the U. S. want to choke off farming? So naive. China’s response plan has long been arranged, focusing on a“You hit your, I plant my”.
1, Legal Shield: Dare to fuck on the counter
China’s newly revised“Anti-foreign Sanctions Law” has added special provisions on agriculture. Anyone who dares to confiscate China’s agricultural land will be punished according to the law. There is also a“Blacklist of foreign agricultural land”, after sanctions against China, want to secretly buy land in China through a third country? No Way.
2, technology breakthrough: hold the seed in your own hands
Longping gaoke’s“South breeding Silicon Valley” in Hainan is not for nothing. It has developed 12 insect-resistant transgenic varieties, among which“Longke No. 16” has a yield of more than 1,500 kilograms per mu, than the main breed in the United States. To put it bluntly, you card your technology, we can grow better!
League of Nations: farming with friends
China is already engaged in“Agricultural cooperation” with the BRICS countries: a joint laboratory between China and Brazil has managed to grow tropical crops, the china-russia Far East Cooperation Zone has increased production by 230% in three years, and 68% of Brazil’s Soya is shipped to China. America wants to cut off payments? It doesn’t matter. Todai’s granary is even fuller.
Rawlins, the United States Department of Agriculture, recently The Art of War, “Go up to the soldiers and attack the strategists,” but she probably didn’t get it — the real trick isn’t to steal the land, but to feed everyone.
Now the United States is very dirty: the food as a new“Strategic weapon”, want to rely on the control of seeds, land card global neck. But the numbers don’t Lie: China is still the largest importer of U.S. soybeans and the third-largest buyer of U.S. pork, and the trade is tight. Even 2024 Chinese and American agricultural scholars have co-authored 137 papers showing that no one can do without another.
And the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’s report makes clear that global agriculture has been divided into three spheres — the u.s.-dominated western sphere, the chinese-led“Belt and Road sphere,” and the self-protective sphere of emerging nations. America wants to lead by containment? I’m afraid I’ve forgotten that food is never won by plundering, but by planting.
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