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Brooke Rollins: “In 1983, China owned about 2,000 acres of American farmland…”

Featuring: Brooke Rollins, Republican | United States Secretary of Agriculture | National

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Brooke Rollins on China’s ownership of U.S. farmland, USDA, data centers | Katie Pavlich Tonight

Published | Video Starts at 02:38

What's the status of stopping that? There's been a lot of outrage throughout the country that that was even happening at all. What has USDA been doing to prevent that? So In 1983, China owned about 2,000 acres of American farmland. Today it's almost 300,000 acres. Acres. And when you look at the heat map, maybe we can send it to you and you can put it up on your screen because I think it's such an important thing to talk about. (02:38–02:46)

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Asserts that Chinese ownership of American farmland has increased from 2,000 acres in 1983 to almost 300,000 acres today.

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