Biden Opens Door to China Sabotage in North Dakota

[] [Biden Opens Door to China Sabotage in North Dakota]( by Gordon G. Chang • December 27, 2022 at 5:00 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [WhatsApp]( [Telegram]( [Send]( [Print]( - The Biden administration just cleared a Chinese company to own 370 acres of land within 12 miles of Grand Forks Air Force Base in Grand Forks, North Dakota. - As a result, China will be able to use a proposed $700 million corn milling plant on the site to spy on military communications and even disrupt them. In Beijing, they must be shaking their heads in disbelief.... - [T]he failure to include all military installations in the implementing regulations was a clear case of regulatory malpractice. - As a result of these enormous mistakes, Fufeng USA, a subsidiary of a Shandong province-based agribusiness giant, is, at least for the moment, free to build its wet corn milling and biofermentation plant in Grand Forks. - "The worst-case scenario involves active sabotage of operations at the Grand Forks facility. Should the U.S. and China end up in a shooting war over, say, Taiwan, Fufeng's property near the Air Force base could be used to send malicious signals to jam passing satellites or disrupt the operation of drones. We have made ourselves vulnerable on our own territory." — Brandon Weichert, author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower, to Gatestone; December 2022. - President Joe Biden can use his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 to block the sale of the Grand Forks land and the building of the milling facility. - "[T]he most serious problem: The [CIFIUS] Committee is chaired by Treasury, which never saw a foreign investment it did not approve. "This means, as a practical matter, that an agency that basically doesn't give a damn about national security is entrusted with running a process that supposedly evaluates and protects national security." — Frank Gaffney, Vice Chair of the Committee on the Present Danger; to Gatestone, December 2022, - The CFIUS mandate must be broadened "to include any foreign investment that threatens our national security interests or, for that matter, other vital interests, in the face of unrestricted and especially economic warfare." — Frank Gaffney to Gatestone; December 2022 - China's regime, which has declared a "people's war" on the U.S., uses investments to undermine America. In wartime — the Communist Party believes it is currently in such a struggle with America — Washington needs to prohibit all investments from China, especially ones near critical Air Force installations in North Dakota. The Biden administration just cleared a Chinese company to own 370 acres of land within 12 miles of Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota. China will be able to use a proposed $700 million corn milling plant on the site to spy on military communications and even disrupt them. Pictured: An RQ-4 Global Hawk drone lands at Grand Forks Air Force Base. (Image source: Johnny Saldivar/Wikimedia Commons) The Biden administration just cleared a Chinese company to own 370 acres of land within 12 miles of Grand Forks Air Force Base in Grand Forks, North Dakota. As a result, China will be able to use a proposed $700 million corn milling plant on the site to spy on military communications and even disrupt them. In Beijing, they must be shaking their heads in disbelief at the inability of the U.S. to protect some of its most sensitive communications. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a Treasury Department-led interagency task force, decided that the purchase was not a "covered transaction" within the meaning of Section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950. Therefore, CFIUS, as the agency is known, decided it did not have jurisdiction to block the land purchase. [Continue Reading Article]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [RSS]( [Donate]( Copyright © Gatestone Institute, All rights reserved. You are subscribed to this list as {EMAIL} You can change how you receive these emails: [Update your subscription preferences]( or [Unsubscribe from this list]( [Gatestone Institute]( 14 East 60 St., Suite 705, New York, NY 10022