President Trump seeks to ban China from buying US farmland

President Donald Trump is seeking a solution to prevent China from purchasing US farmland. The information was confirmed by Agriculture Department Secretary Brooke Rollins.

During an exclusive conversation with Breitbart, Rollins explained that this issue is among her priorities as secretary because many of these lands are located adjacent to military bases.

"One of the very, very top of the list [issues] perhaps is the Chinese purchase of our farmland. A lot of that land is around some of our military outposts," Rollins told Breitbart News.

"With my experience in the states, I am a huge, huge believer in the laboratories of democracy—the 10th Amendment says our states are the guardians at the gate—and for the last several years my organization America First Policy Institute, we actually worked among multiple states to get states to act on this to pass state legislation but we also are looking at a federal solution too," she explained.

In 2023, Arkansas became the first state to force a Chinese publicly held company to sell its properties. In October, it gave agrochemical company Syngenta, owned by Chinese state-owned ChemChina, a two-year deadline to sell the 160 acres of farmland it owns in the state.

The order was issued by Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders.