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Pete Hegseth: “China... have 383,935 acres of farmland owned by the Chinese…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Ronny Jackson on Fox & Friends 1/28/2023

Published | Video Starts at 02:24

And I want to give our viewers a sense. One country in particular has, you know, hundreds of thousands of acreage in the United States, and it's China... have 383,935 acres of farmland owned by the Chinese government inside the U.S. how does this happen and what can you do about it? Yeah, this is the number of acres that have been bought up by foreign entities has gone up exponentially over the last few years. (02:24–02:35)

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Asserts that China owns 383,935 acres of U.S. farmland.

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