Sen. Marsha Blackburn says China needs to be banned from purchasing US farmland

Tennessee GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn says that China must be held accountable for their spying on the U.S. and suspicious activity involving buying up American farmland.

Senator Blackburn has put together a plan that goes into detail on what steps the United States should take in order to investigate China and limit their influence in this country. 

"We need to protect our food security and our food supply chain and our food processors," Blackburn said on the Tuesday edition of the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "We need to be certain that the Chinese Communist Party is blocked from buying farmland and purchasing land in proximity to our military posts."

Suggestions from Blackburn's plan on holding China accountable found on her website include:

• The United States should maintain its participation in international organizations, and work multilaterally to reshape Beijing's participation in those organizations as China pursues a new model for intergovernmental institutions shaped by self-interest.
• Congress should promote increasing defense investment in U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) while building human capital enterprise-wide, to augment regional deterrence and bolster arenas in which the U.S. possesses an asymmetric advantage.
• The United States should address Chinese academic, research, and economic espionage, and intellectual property theft, through the introduction of new, responsibly stringent regulations and consistent implementation of existing regulations.

Blackburn said that she has had this plan since 2020. 

"This is not something that we have just recently put out," Blackburn said. "But what it does is it recognizes those vulnerabilities and the way that China works."