Why Has China Become More Aggressive Against the United States?

Over the past three weeks, four aircraft were shot down over the United States. The first aircraft was a spy balloon from China, which was allowed to spend two days in the airspace over Alaska and a week traversing the continental United States before being shot down off the coast of South Carolina on February 4. A week after the spy balloon was shot down, three different aircraft were shot down – one over Alaska, one over the Yukon Territory in Canada, and one over Michigan – over the period of three days.

Most of the debris from the spy balloon was recovered, but nothing from the last three “objects” has been recovered. In fact, it is not known what the last three objects were or who sent them afloat. However, we do know that China is flexing its muscles towards America. In her article published at The Daily Signal, Samantha Aschieris gave the following quote: 

“China is brazenly pushing the limits, to see how far they can go. President [Joe] Biden’s administration has consistently demonstrated weakness, showing a willingness to act against adversaries like the Chinese Communist Party only after the public outcry was so deafening that they could not ignore it,” Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, told The Daily Signal in an emailed statement.

“This situation is still developing, and the House Committee on Homeland Security will continue monitoring this incident as more information comes out and demand full transparency for the American people,” said Green, also a member of the House Foreign Relations Committee.

In addition to invading our sovereign airspace, Chinese nationals are invading our southern border and doing so in “exploding numbers.” According to an article by Virginia Allen published at The Daly Signal, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection said that 89 illegal aliens from China were encountered in January 2022. Last month, the number grew to 1,084. They also reported that the number of immigrants from Russia are also exploding with 1,030 in January 2022 and 4,509 in January 2023. 

People around the world obviously understand that the southern border of the United States is open. “Since fiscal year 2023 began Oct. 1, Customs and Border Protection says it has encountered 2,999 Chinese nationals on the southern border, outpacing the combined total of 2,626 for fiscal years 2021 and 2022.”

A third problem concerning national security and China is taking place at ground level. People and companies associated with the Chinese government are acquiring American land. “The Department of Agriculture is supposed to oversee foreign ownership of U.S. farmland and all such purchases are required by law to be reported to the USDA. It is unclear how much reporting has been done because the USDA’s Farm Service Agency mostly relies on volunteer reporting.”

Several members of Congress want more monitoring to be done about farmland being sold to foreigners. In his article published at The Daily Signal, Cal Thomas quoted the following from constitutional attorney John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute: 

As of 2021, foreign persons and entities owned 40.8 million acres of U.S. agricultural land, 47% of which was forestland, 29% in cropland, and 22% in pastureland. Foreign landholdings have increased by an average of 2.2 million acres per year since 2015.

Foreign countries also own over $7.4 trillion worth of U.S. debt, with Japan and China ranked as [the] two largest foreign holders of our debt.

I do not believe that it is wise to have foreigners buying our agricultural land, and I believe that it is stupid to be in dept to foreign nations, particularly foreign nations that are not friendly, such as China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea. Thomas explained, “A simple web search shows China owns and controls almost 192,000 acres of farmland in the United States.” Although they do not own a large percentage of the total farmland, the amount grows steadily.

A major problem as I see it is that fact that China is purchasing land near U.S. military bases. Americans are starting to wake up to the national security problem that faces us. The City Council in Grand Forks, North Dakota, recently voted – unanimously – to stop a Chinese company from purchasing a corn mill near a military base because the U.S. Air Force had security concerns about the purchase.

With the number of Chinese nationals crossing our southern border with increasing numbers each month, laws are being proposed to ban Chinese citizens from “purchasing land, homes, and other buildings in the United States,” according to Thomas. He concluded:

If balloons traversing the U.S. and Canada are not enough for us to get serious about China’s worldwide effort to replace the United States as a world power, conducting espionage at many levels and what looks like preparations to invade Taiwan as Beijing tests U.S. resolve, then what will get our attention to take stronger countermeasures?

The Chinese Communist Party oppresses its people, controls the press, discriminates against religious believers whose primary faith is not in the regime, refuses to hold fair elections, and jails and kills opponents. In this, they are not unlike Soviet Russia. They are today’s “evil empire.”

Beijing’s aggressive agenda must be opposed, or the threat will spread to the point we might not be able to deter them. Backing measures to keep China from buying up American land is a good place to start, even while monitoring the skies for more balloons.

China is our enemy, not just a competitor as the Biden administration states. More and more evidence is being uncovered to show that Joe Biden is a compromised president. Through the business dealings of his son, Hunter Biden, the Biden family has received millions of dollars from China. Are the business ties affecting the decisions that Biden makes as POTUS? Has he sold us down the river to China?