The North Dakota Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation banning a foreign adversary from owning land in the state. State Senator Bob Paulson, who is from Minot, introduced the bill. Paulson said this proposal was prompted by the proposed Fufeng corn wet milling project in Grand Forks. Center for Security Policy State Outreach Director Christopher Holton came from Washington, D.C. to testify. “China has been particularly active in the last ten years in attempting to acquire land in the U.S.,” explained Holton. “From 2010 to 2020, Chinese ownership of U.S. farmland increased from $81 million (in value) to $1.8 billion, including land in North Dakota, Texas, North Carolina, Missouri, Florida, Utah, Virginia, Colorado and Oklahoma. Food security is national security. If Americans don’t act, China will.”
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