July 8 (UPI) -- The Trump administration has announced it will work to limit Chinese nationals and nationals from other so-called adversarial countries from purchasing U.S. farmland, saying their ownership of U.S. crops poses a national security risk.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a seven-point National Farm Security Action Plan on Tuesday aimed at protecting U.S. farmland and food from becoming owned by foreign governments and entities, specifically the People's Republic of China.
During a press conference in Washington, D.C., with the Trump administration's leading law enforcement and military officials, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins said U.S. farmland was under threat from "criminals," "political adversaries" and "hostile regimes" seeking to use it as a weapon against the American people.
"American agriculture is not just about feeding our families but about protecting our nation and standing up to foreign adversaries who are buying our farmland, stealing our research and creating dangerous vulnerabilities in the very systems that sustain us," she said.
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