Chinese ownership of US farmland no threat to American security, envoy says

China’s top envoy in Washington has rejected suggestions that Chinese ownership of US farmland is a national security threat, saying such claims are “completely unfounded”.
Addressing a soybean industry event in Washington on Friday, Xie Feng, the Chinese ambassador to the United States, said Chinese investors owned less than 0.03 per cent of the total farmland in the US.
“How can it pose a threat to US food security as some have claimed?” Xie said, according to a transcript of his speech…