Community Thwarts Chinese Land Grab
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One community stopped a company affiliated with the CCP from buying local farmland.
From Daily Mail. A rural community in Michigan has hailed a ‘huge victory’ after a Chinese-owned industrial firm backed out of buying local farmland.
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Residents of the idyllic Green Charter Township, around 50 miles east of Lake Michigan, say they were ‘bullied’ into accepting the takeover, but refused to do so.
Gotion, a company that ‘pledges allegiance’ to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), did, however, complete the purchase of 260 acres of derelict industrial land in the township and 10 acres of disused farmland last week.
It comes as data shows Chinese firms now own more than $2billion worth of US farmland, up from just $162million a decade ago, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The CCP has a stake in 383,935 acres of American agricultural land as of December 2021, according to the latest figures released by the US Department of Agriculture. …
It has sparked a national debate over why the US is allowing a hostile state to buy up vital land across the country amid concerns over espionage and security.
Hundreds of residents in Green Charter Township, Mecosta County, have previously turned out to protest the Gotion deal, in which the firm is to be paid $175million in direct taxpayer funding to help it build the facility.
Questions have also been raised over allowing a CCP-subsidiary to move into a site that is just 100 miles away from a US military camp where the Michigan National Guard has been training troops from Taiwan – a territory neighboring China some security experts, including among the US military, say Beijing is preparing to invade.
In a statement confirming the purchase of 270 acres of land in Green Charter Township last week, Gotion said it had ‘listened to concerns of local residents and decided not to purchase two large parcels of land zoned for agriculture use at this time’.
Resident and realtor Lori Brock, 58, who has led the local opposition to the deal, said the concession was a ‘huge’ victory for the community, but warned the fight was ‘far from over’. …
Critics of the Gotion deal have highlighted a clause in its business filings that states the company ‘shall set up a party organization and carry out party activities in accordance with the constitution of the Communist Party of China’. …
The Gotion deal is the latest in a string of Chinese takeovers of US farmland in recent years. …
But there are signs communities and lawmakers are fighting back.
The mayor of Grand Forks, Minnesota, has said he will stop the US branch of Chinese firm Fufeng Group from building a $700million corn mill on the outskirts of the town after an Air Force official published a letter citing a security risk due to its proximity to an Air Force base. …
In Congress, lawmakers have introduced bipartisan bills to block the ability of buyers from China, Russia, North Korea and Iran to purchase US agriculture.
Meanwhile, more than 20 states are considering measures aimed at restricting existing limits around foreign ownership of US farmland, according to the National Agricultural Law Center. …
Are you encouraged by this news? Share your prayers to protect our land from the CCP below!
(Excerpt from Daily Mail. Photo Credit: Federico Respini on Unspalsh)
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God, El Elyon, protect our land. Give Americans wisdom and strategy to reject the internal invasion of China.
No U. S. land should be sold to foreigners from hostile nations. We are selling ourselves into slavery.
Lord God, restore our hearts and minds, so that we can see the clear and present danger of allowing access to those who seek our destruction.
ADDENDUM
Almighty God established this country. it belongs to Him.!! Rev Robert Hunt made a covenant with the Lord.
“We do hereby dedicate this land and ourselves, to reach the people within these shores with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to raise up Godly generations after us, and with these generations take the Kingdom of God to all the earth. May this Covenant of Dedication remain to all generations, as long as this earth remains, and may this land, along with England, be Evangelists to the world. May all who see this cross, remember what we have done here, and may those who come here to inhabit, join us in this Covenant and in this most noble work that the Holy Scriptures my be fulfilled.”
Robert Hunt, Cape Henry, 1607
Whoever would allow another country to come into our country and buy it up should be tried for treason and suffer the consequences.
I don’t believe this is something most American citizens would approve of nor allow IF they knew what was going on ahead of time.
I continue to pray for the whole body of Christ to wake up, to learn what is happening in and to our country, for common sense, wisdom, discernment, get knowledge and understanding and unite as 1 force with Jesus at the helm. I know there are many, many angels ready and waiting to be dispatched to do the will of God. And so much more………………………….
I agree with Kim Potter in her post today—–we MUST PREPARE for the days ahead. Time is so short. May we be prepared as the 5 virgins were when the Lord called.
Father, thank you for stirring the hearts of citizens to stop the enemy nations from buying our land. Give our leaders wisdom and may our leaders pass this legislation to stop China from buying our land.
I will be keeping my eyes peeled on those Chinese who buy up our land and are not citizens of the USA.
How can one learn of land buy outs in progress?
Dear Lord, Please keep our country safe and protected from other country’s interference. How dare these crooks attempt to upsurp and take over our land here in the USA for their deranged purposes. Save our land dear Lord and may those fighting in states for our land stay strong in the fight and follow Governor DeSantis success in keeping China and other foreign entities out of their states. All in your great Name, Amen.
All land, property, business, and homes should belong to citizens of USA . Anything previously purchased should be taken back – alllow owner to sell it for what they bought it for- if they disagree govt takes it and auctions it- proceeds pay off national debt.