The U.S. Isn’t Ready to Face China on the Battlefield
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[–]Insider 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (2 children)
Is Chinese ownership of farmland really a threat?
Foreign ownership of US farmland is at ~37.6 million acres: https://www.fsa.usda.gov/Assets/USDA-FSA-Public/usdafiles/EPAS/PDF/2020_afida_annual_report.pdf
Chinese companies own 192,000 acres American farmland: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/19/china-buying-us-farms-foreign-purchase-499893
Bill Gates owns over 268,000 acres.
Jeff Bezos owns 420,000 acres
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaires-jeff-bezos-bill-gates-175500099.html
Oligarchs single-handedly own hundreds of thousands to millions of acres of farmland/land:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/largest-landowners-by-state
but media conglomerates created by the likes of CNN founder Ted Turner who owns 2 million acres of land is telling us the problem is China, hmm...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/11/25/these-people-own-the-most-land-in-america/40649951/
Rupert Murdoch, who owns Wall Street Journal posted in the OP, just purchased 345,000 acres of farmland last year.
https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/article/2021/12/10/rupert-murdoch-buys-sprawling-mt-200
[–]mifu 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago* (1 child)
In my opinion, yes. Bill Gates has recently demonstrated that he is not a friend of most citizens of the world. Do all the entities you named have a common purpose? Are any of those entities instigating the destruction of food processing plants and interruption of the US supply chain? All those you named are at least suspect to some degree. The media, also suspect because they are owned by a handful of corporations, seem to be pretending that the massive supply chain problems are merely coincidental, when obviously they are not. Couple all that with a floundering US administration that through family has real, palpable connections to China and it is clear that a disaster is looming. The Biden admin will most likely be out in two years so whatever they are allowing to happen is coming to fruition rapidly, the effects of all this are beginning to be felt and the usual government agencies who are meant to guard against threats foreign and domestic seem from my perspective to be complicit or uninterested but I expect the former. So, do I see a threat? Yes, and anyone who does not see it and is not concerned, has been lulled by our complicit media or Fentanyl, both of which have similar effects.
[–]Insider 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
Our complicit media and government astroturfs are the ones telling you that China's a threat. They've been blasting it non-stop for the past 4 years.
China will try to establish business connections with anyone who becomes president or may become president. Their goal isn't to manipulate US domestic politics, but to get the US to back off of their own domestic affairs.
Here's CCP pundit Di Dongsheng describing the US deep state, which is basically a reiteration of Snowden/McAfee's definition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tq6CClTKA8
This is Di Dongsheng's lecture to Chinese audiences of how they deal with America. He talks about how they have connections in Wall Street which influences the deep state. He talks about how everything can be dealt with using money and how they helped Biden's son build global foundations (i.e. establish business internationally).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv9VhK3c48c
Pretty bad right? Biden is a Chinese puppet and China's influencing American politics, according to Fox News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xa-w2MTKRA
Except Fox News and other channels conveniently leave out details of Dongsheng speech, specifically, the issues they've settled using their influence of American politics:
The United States Navy forced the surrounding Middle Eastern countries to refuse docking rights to the Yinhe, leaving it in the international waters of the Indian Ocean for twenty-four days. Cutting off their usage of the GPS so that the ship was stranded.
Targeted bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_bombing_of_the_Chinese_embassy_in_Belgrade
US jet crashing into another plane near Hainan province killing a Chinese pilot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident
These are all incidents where the US is the aggressor and they all have nothing to do with US domestic affairs
Here's the problem with China's methods: Money isn't the bottom line, pedophilia is.
Second problem with China's strategy: they haven't figured out that Trump is controlled opposition.
Despite all the business connections, Biden has been continuously implementing policies to "take on" China. China's holding them off from war, but plans are still in motion.
Biden banned ASML from servicing China, preventing them from getting semi-conductor chips: https://www.asiafinancial.com/asml-and-lam-research-pull-us-engineers-out-in-china-scmp
US has been increasing their military presence in Taiwan and increasing their weaponry. They're currently in talks to co-produce weapons.
https://www.voanews.com/a/pentagon-us-nearly-doubled-military-personnel-stationed-in-taiwan-this-year-/6337695.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62775544
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-government-considering-joint-production-weapons-with-taiwan-nikkei-2022-10-19/
Here's the "Countering Chinese Propaganda Act": https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/429/text
Tax dollars well-spent on fake news, let's just spend half a billion more on that propaganda stuff shall we: https://prospect.org/politics/congress-proposes-500-million-for-negative-news-coverage-of-china/
So who's the aggressor? And you're worried about 0.02% ownership of farmland. You on some of that CIA fentanyl?
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