China is seizing land near military sites – and lawmakers must act ASAP

On another front where the Biden administration is blithely ignoring U.S. national security, an explosive Post report revealed last week that Chinese entities had purchased land around 19 military bases across the country.

The danger is obvious: Beijing can easily use surveillance technologies, such as drones or trackers, to monitor movements in and out of bases, among other espionage activities.

And it is clearly the intention: Sun Guangxin, a former People's Liberation Army general with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party, owns about 40 percent of Chinese-owned U.S. land; in a few years, starting in 2016, he notably purchased $110 million worth of land next to Laughlin Air Force Base, in Val Verde County, Texas.

His plan to operate a “wind farm” there was foiled by the Lone Star Infrastructure Act, preventing companies associated with “hostile nations” from accessing the state’s energy grid.

Texas is not the only state fighting back: As of 2023, 15 states have passed laws regulating foreign ownership of U.S. land; Twenty other states plan to do the same this year.

But why isn’t the Biden administration doing more?

Yes, President Biden signed an executive order last month requiring a Chinese Bitcoin mining company to sell land near FE Warren Base, home to intercontinental ballistic missiles, in Cheyenne, Wyo.

It could do the same to evict CCP-linked landlords all agricultural land near military sites.

Several lawmakers have attempted to get ahead of this issue at the national level.

Last year, Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) reintroduced a bill requiring the government to prohibit entities associated with the Chinese government from purchasing U.S. farmland (which accounts for virtually all of the sites in question; the Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Senators Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Mike Rounds (R-SD) introduced legislation to prevent China, Russia, Iran and North Korea from TO DO.

But all of these bills die in committee.

Congress should pass legislation as soon as possible; In the meantime, Biden must begin rolling back the CCP's slow, methodical invasion.