Is China Invading America?

Tens of thousands of military-age Chinese men have been processed at the U.S./Mexico border in recent months. Authorities have discovered Chinese police stations in America’s cities. Chinese companies are partnering with or outright buying American agricultural land and companies. Philip Lenczycki recently published an article in The Daily Signal reporting on China’s pork business. 

America’s largest pork producer was exporting massive quantities of pork to its Chinese “sister company” as it stockpiled food for the Chinese military, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of corporate records and Chinese state-run media reports.

Smithfield Foods, owner of roughly 150,000 acres of U.S. land and operator of dozens of feed mills and production plants, has shipped hundreds of thousands of tons of pork to its China-based company WH Group and sister company Shuanghui Investment and Development Co. since being acquired in 2013, according to corporate and Chinese government records s well as state-run media reports.

Shuanghui has extensive ties to the People’s Liberation Army, which it touts on its website, and is responsible for developing food for China’s military to use on the battlefield, according to the PLA-sponsored China Military News.

Shuanghui also operates a food “mobilization center” for the PLA in Henan province, and has done so since 2009, according to a 2022 Shuanghui news release. Shuanghui’s mobilization center stockpiles food, including pork, to meet the PLA’s emergency response needs, and Chinese state-run reports indicate that Shuanghui has distributed food from this stockpile to Chinese soldiers on several occasions in recent years.

A December 2023 report from the Luohe municipal government in Henan province indicates the military stockpile is still active and under Shuanghui’s management. While Shanghui doesn’t disclose where the pork it supplies the PLA originates from, it’s very likely that at least some U.S. pork product is being supplied to the PLA, according to Brian O’Shea, a former military and intelligence analyst.

“My opinion would be that the Chinese government is giving this superior U.S. pork to their soldiers,” O’Shea told the Daily Caller News Foundation based on his understanding of Smithfield’s central role in Shuanghui’s pork supply chain and Shuanghui’s extensive relationship with the PLA.

“At these mobilization centers, there’s going to be a Smithfield pile and a Chinese domestic pork pile, and the Chinese domestic pork is most likely going to the civilians, whereas the superior pork is going to the Chinese military,” O’Shea said.

Neither Smithfield nor Shuanghui responded to multiple requests for comment.

Those who study the situation believe that American pork is being stockpiled to feed Chinese soldiers. This seems wrong to me on several levels, but there is more.

WH Group acquired Smithfield in 2013 for $7.1 billion….

The Daily Caller News Foundation recently reported that WH Group’s chairman and four other executives are Chinese Communist Party members. WH Group’s chairman and several top executives also hold, or previously held, positions with the Chinese government, the Daily Caller News Foundation found.

WH Group’s leadership includes both Shuanghui and Smithfield executives, according to Reuters.

In 2013, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission’s annual report characterized Smithfield’s acquisition by WH Group as “part of a broader trend of Chinese global investment in farm assets or food technologies.”

“China’s acquisitions in agriculture and other sectors are being driven by the desire to secure higher volumes of safe products and, in the long term, access to advanced production and processing technologies,” the commission wrote in its report.

“We’ve got to remember that China is a unified state,” Gordon Chang, distinguished senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “It operates under the direction of the Communist Party, which demands absolute obedience from all individuals and all entities.”

There is much more in Lenczycki’s article, and I encouraged you to read it. Meanwhile, consider the above paragraph: “China is a unified state” that “operates under the direction of the Communist Party, which demands absolute obedience…”

I think that we should be extremely concerned about the tens of thousands of Chinese military aged men who are entering the United States. China is sending tens of thousands of military aged men to America at the same time that their American company is sending hundreds of thousands of tons of American pork to China. The men did not escape from China. They were allowed to leave. Why?