U.S. Senators Again Propose Banning Communist China from Acquiring American Land

Recently, Republican Senator Ted Cruz reintroduced a bill to ban affiliates of adversarial regimes from purchasing land near U.S. military installations. U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), introduced The Protecting Military Installations and Ranges Act on February 10th. The Act requires the sale of land approximately 160 kilometers from a U.S. military installation or 80 kilometers from a military area to be conditionally restricted, and any foreigners “connected to or subsidized” by Communist China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, the sale and lease of land must be approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment. The bill also gives the Department of Defense the authority to stop construction on sites that are under federal investigation. This is the third time in four years that Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has introduced legislative language to do this, arguing that the spying threat exported by CCP is so serious and festering. It is imperative that the CCP be prevented from acquiring any land near U.S. national security facilities. As the American people continue to wake up, attitudes within the United States are hardening against the CCP, and Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Congressman Rick Crawford (R-AR) recently introduced the bill of Promoting Agriculture Safeguards and Security (PASS) Act, which would blacklist Communist China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea and prohibit investments related to these countries from acquiring U.S. land or control of the United States’ agriculture industry. To date, more than ten state governments have considered similar measures. Not only that, but the Japanese government has also begun to put the acquisition of Japanese land by Chinese citizens on the agenda. According to media reports, a Chinese woman bought an uninhabited island in Okinawa Prefecture of Japan in 2021, and the local village council confirmed that a Tokyo-registered business company owns half of the island, and since the uninhabited Okinawa island is only 60 kilometers from Kadena Air Base, the purpose of this property transaction is very suspicious.