Blake Masters, who is running for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Arizona, on Sunday called to ban acquisitions of American land by Chinese Communist Party-affiliated entities.
“It’s obscene that we would allow Chinese Communist Party stooges to profit off our resources. These are basic mistakes a serious country would never make. They are flooding us with fentanyl, launching cyber attacks, stealing our IP, and our current crop of failed leaders seems more or less OK with it. That needs to change,” Masters told Breitbart News.
Masters shared a tweet earlier that day about a former general in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, who is reported to own 200 square miles of land near Laughlin Air Base in Texas, commenting, “We are going to make this illegal.”
Breitbart News reported on this land acquisition in August 2021, noting that Senator Ted Cruz speculated the Chinese Communist Party was engaging in “land purchase schemes” in sensitive locations to “expand its espionage capabilities.”
On July 1, the New York Post reported on another case of a Chinese entity purchasing land near an American military base:
A Chinese company’s purchase of farmland in North Dakota just down the road from a US Air Force base that houses sensitive drone technology has lawmakers on Capitol Hill worried about potential espionage by Beijing, according to a report.
This is not the first time Masters has expressed concern about the Chinese regime’s activities in the American economy, tweeting in December 2021 that “when it comes to international labor, trade, and investment, it’s time to wake up: we’re talking about foreign powers with their own interests.”
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