MEDIA ADVISORY

For Immediate Release
December 20, 2023

CONTACT:
Matthew Franklin
[email protected]

Feeding the Mouth that Bites You:
Biden’s Secret Agriculture Dealings with the CCP

WASHINGTON, D.C.—An important part of Joe Biden’s appeasement of Chinese dictator Xi Jinping formalized during their summit on the margins of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in San Francisco last month turns out to have been an agreement to launch a bilateral working group on agricultural issues. The magnitude of this U.S. concession is the greater for it comes as a growing number of Americans are recognizing the utter inadvisability of allowing the Chinese Communist Party anywhere near American farmland, the wellspring of our food supply and its associated processing plants and distribution infrastructure – let alone owning such assets.

As journalist Natalie Winters reported on December 16, 2023:
[During a keynote address to a CCP United Front Work Department event, U.S.] Ambassador to China Nick Burns revealed that the White House secretly established an Agricultural Working Group with the Chinese Communist Party…despite concerns over the national security risk posed by China’s foray into America’s farmland and food supply.

The stunning announcement follows efforts from Republican lawmakers to forbid Chinese Communist Party-linked companies and individuals from purchasing U.S. farmland, blocking their ability to influence the security of America’s food supply. President Joe Biden, however, appears to have taken a different and considerably more inviting approach to the Chinese Communist Party on agriculture matters, according to Ambassador Burns’s recent speech.
The next Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC) webinar, “Feeding the Mouth that Bites You: Biden’s Secret Agriculture Dealings with the CCP,”  will examine the national and food security threats posed by Chinese individuals and entities tied to the CCP buying up American farming real estate, processing plants and other aspects of our food supply chain.  It will also address what must be done to protect the American heartland, its people and their food security now clearly in the Chinese Communists’ crosshairs today from 1-2:15 p.m. ET.

WHAT: A CPDC Webinar | “CPDC Webinar: Feeding the Mouth that Bites You: Biden’s Secret Agriculture Dealings with the CCP”

WHEN: 1:00-2:15 pm ET, Wednesday, December 20, 2023

WHO:

Moderator: Frank Gaffney, Founder and Executive Chairman, Center for Security Policy; Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China

PANELISTS:

Ross Kennedy – Founder, Fortis Analysis; logistics industry veteran operating agribusiness, chemical, energy, humanitarian, food, defense, and water supply chains
• Topic: “America’s Food Security – Our Achilles’ Heel and the CCP’s Efforts to Exploit It.”
Natalie Winters – Co-Host and Executive Editor, “War Room Pandemic”
• Topic: “The CCP’s Weaponization of Influence Operations against America’s Farmers and Heartland.”
Lieutenant Colonel Tommy Waller, USMC (Ret.), Former Commanding Officer, the Marines’ only Reserve Force Reconnaissance Company; President and CEO, Center for Security Policy
• Topic: “Food Security is National Security: Our Enemy Understands That Reality; Do We?”
Hon. Mike Charles Echols, Louisiana State Representative, lead sponsor of legislation barring ownership of agricultural land in the state by foreign adversaries;  that legislation was vetoed by Gov. John Bel Edwards
• Topic: “CCP Purchases of American Farmland: What’s at Stake and Contending with ‘Elite Capture’ in the Heartland.”
Hon. Jeff Hoverson, North Dakota State Representative, lead sponsor of legislation restricting ownership of real property in the state by foreign adversaries
• Topic: “Successfully Blocking Chinese Penetration of America’s Agricultural Sector in Proximity to a Strategic Military Facility.”
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