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Not sure about that, but the paranoia can always go up a notch. People are just wild!

I doubt it’s any worse than when people were freaking out about the Japanese buying up office buildings in the 80’s

Undisciplined

The economic and agricultural threat posed by Chinese-owned farmland is modest, but our fears may reflect broader anxieties about national power.

For years now, a persistent narrative has circulated in American political discourse: China is quietly buying up vast swaths of US farmland, threatening food security, undermining sovereignty, and gradually gaining strategic control over America’s agricultural base.

It is an emotionally resonant story, one that combines geopolitical rivalry, declining trust in institutions, and anxieties about national decline. Yet like many claims that gain traction through repetition, its empirical foundations are weak.

The short version: Chinese ownership of US farmland exists, but the scale is dramatically smaller than commonly portrayed, the economic implications are muted, and any genuinely important concerns are narrower, more specific, and less sensational than the public narrative machine alleges.

econ

> The economic and agricultural threat posed by Chinese-owned farmland is modest, but our fears may reflect broader anxieties about national power.
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> For years now, a persistent narrative has circulated in American political discourse: China is quietly buying up vast swaths of US farmland, threatening food security, undermining sovereignty, and gradually gaining strategic control over America’s agricultural base.
>
> It is an emotionally resonant story, one that combines geopolitical rivalry, declining trust in institutions, and anxieties about national decline. Yet like many claims that gain traction through repetition, its empirical foundations are weak.
>
> The short version: Chinese ownership of US farmland exists, but the scale is dramatically smaller than commonly portrayed, the economic implications are muted, and any genuinely important concerns are narrower, more specific, and less sensational than the public narrative machine alleges.
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