| − | Since the mid-2000's, the [[CCP]] has been buying up valuable farmland in the U.S. <ref>https://www.newsweek.com/china-coming-american-farms-opinion-1619777</ref> | + | Since the mid-2000's, the [[CCP]] has been buying up valuable farmland in the U.S. <ref>https://www.newsweek.com/china-coming-american-farms-opinion-1619777</ref> Records from the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act show that Chinese land acquisitions "rose from less than 10 annually" before 2008 to "12 to 25 each year during 2008-2013". |