Earlier this week, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders made her state the first in the nation to direct a Chinese state-owned company to give up American land after failing to report foreign ownership. The land in question: approximately 160 acres in Craighead County.
“America’s enemies are on the march. They are smart, they are brutal, and they will stop at nothing to harm our country,” Huckabee Sanders said on X. “Arkansas is the first state in the country to fight back and kick a Chinese-owned company off our farmland.”
According to Just The News, “The land in question is owned by Northrup King Seed Co., a subsidiary of Syngenta Seeds, LLC, which is owned by China National Chemical Company, or ChemChina, according to the attorney general’s office.”
“ChemChina is on the Department of Defense’s list of Chinese military companies posing a clear threat, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday.”
“For too long, in the name of tolerance, we’ve let these dangerous governments infiltrate our country. Arkansas will tolerate them no longer,” said Sanders. “I was proud to sign Act 636 sponsored by Sen. Johnson and Rep. Vaught banning foreign parties from nine enemy countries from owning agricultural land in Arkansas. And today we are acting on that law.”
“If they refuse to sell, our attorney general can move forward with legal proceedings and force them to get out of our state,” Sanders added.
“For those of you who think this is some sort of outlier, you’re wrong. I’ve been in the military for almost 30 years, and I can tell you one of the most consistent themes over the last decade at least has been warnings about the Communist Chinese, what they will do and what they are doing. So this is smart and this is strategic,” Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said.
“We had congressional hearings in the late 90’s in Washington on dual-use technologies, civilian related technologies that the Chinese were obtaining from the United States,” Griffin added.
The Drill Down has reported on many stories in the past that involve China setting up shop on American farmland —and near strategic, sensitive military bases —in order to gain an advantage over America and its citizens.
Hopefully, governors and AGs across the country will follow the lead of Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Tim Griffin.
