China is buying Africa. Is Russia buying US?

[MoonRiver]

[NightWatcher]

1. Taking us

[democratisphere]

2. Russia doesn't have to buy US.

The US is being given away.

[rsdsharp]

3. Exactly

Russia bought Trump. Trump is giving them the US.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. China has had a foot print

in Africa for several Decades. The first was Extraction of Minerals,complete with their own Security Forces to guard their mining operations,complete non dependence on any local goods or services. In order to have ready supply of Food for their workers,they started Farming Operations which today are growing into a massive operation.

Never forget,China is one of the largest players in our Pork and Poultry Industries. Check out the ownership of Smithfield Foods.
Massive.

[malaise]

5. Well I guess that's an improvement

The West stole it and enslaved our ancestors.
Indeed we celebrate Emancipation Day today.

For all the problems associated with foreign powers in Africa, including the Chinese, at least they are building a trans-Africa railway.

[MoonRiver]

6. I'm terrified for the elephants and rhinos.

[malaise]

7. True

but Jnr and Eric and the Euro royals are just as bad

[KY_EnviroGuy]

8. Russia is buying influence & power. China is buying U.S. land and companies.

Article is a couple of years old but still pertinent....

Foreign investment in U.S. farmland on the rise
By Johnathan Hettinger and Robert Holly
with additional reporting by Jelter Meers/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting
June 22, 2017

(snips)

In 2013, the Chinese firm Shuanghui received wide public attention when it purchased U.S. pork producer Smithfield Foods for a record $4.7 billion. In an overlooked part of the deal, Shuanghui also acquired more than 146,000 acres of farmland across the United States, worth more than $500 million, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data.

The deal made Shuanghui, now the WH Group Limited, into one of the biggest foreign owners of U.S. agricultural land, according to an analysis of that same data. That purchase was just a part of a continuing surge in foreign investment in American farmland and food that has raised concerns in Congress and among rural advocacy groups.

“The more control foreign interests have in our food system, the less control we have, obviously,” said Tim Gibbons, a director for the Missouri Rural Crisis Center, an advocacy organization based in Columbia. “I think it’s a national security concern.”
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Texas and Maine, which have no laws limiting foreign ownership, each have nearly 3 million acres of crop, timber and pastureland owned by foreign entities, far more than any other state. Other states with more than 1 million acres of foreign-owned farmland include Alabama, Washington, Florida, California, Colorado, Louisiana and Georgia.

Saudi Arabia buying up farmland in US Southwest as well. We're for sale to the highest bidder. That also includes homes and commercial real estate.

KY.....