While We Slept: How the CCP Quietly Bought America’s Heartland

While Americans were locked in bitter domestic battles over pronouns, gender ideology in schools, and the toppling of statues, a much more dangerous threat crept in unnoticed—one not wrapped in rainbow flags but in red ones bearing five yellow stars.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), while pretending to play by global norms, has spent the last decade quietly and deliberately buying up large swaths of American farmland and residential property. Their strategy is simple: infiltrate the United States not through tanks and troops, but through deeds and dollars.

The CCP has no intention of winning a war it doesn’t need to fight—because they’re winning a silent one through economic colonization. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Chinese investors now own over 300,000 acres of farmland in the United States. While that number may seem modest in proportion to the entire U.S. agricultural landscape, it’s not what the land is—it’s where it is located. Many of these purchases are strategically located near U.S. military bases, critical infrastructure, and water resources.

For example, in 2021, a Chinese-owned company, Fufeng Group, purchased over 300 acres near Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota. That’s not a coincidence. That base is home to some of the nation’s most sensitive drone operations and satellite communications. Despite public backlash, the fact that this sale was even possible reflects how distracted and disorganized America has become in defending its own soil.

Here’s where it gets more insidious. In China, the government is offering 100-year mortgages—yes, 100 years—to Chinese citizens who are willing to purchase property abroad, particularly in Western countries such as the United States, Canada, and Australia. Why? Because Beijing knows real estate is one of the most effective tools to exert long-term influence and gradually reshape a society from the inside out.

These absurdly long loans, often state-backed, are handed out with little regard for normal lending practices. The point isn’t to profit from a sound mortgage—it’s to plant roots. Ownership, even absentee ownership, gives leverage over local economies, housing markets, and even political dynamics. Chinese nationals flush with CCP-backed capital are purchasing homes—often in bulk—then leaving them vacant, driving up property prices for working American families and slowly changing the makeup of entire neighborhoods and towns.

And while our political establishment bickers over whether gas stoves are racist or not, the CCP is laying claim to the American Dream, one parcel at a time.

Let’s be clear: the CCP didn’t outwit us. We allowed this to happen. While the right has spent its energy trying to undo the cultural rot imposed by the progressive left—drag shows for kids, DEI in the military, and biological men in women's sports—the CCP slipped through the backdoor and bought the house.

Our national security agencies, while hyper-focused on domestic dissent and pronoun infractions, ignored a real geopolitical threat unfolding in real estate and agriculture. And our lawmakers, Democrats and Republicans alike, have failed to enforce meaningful restrictions on foreign land ownership, let alone from a hostile regime that openly declares its desire to replace American global leadership.

What Needs to Happen Now?

1. Immediate Ban on CCP-Linked Purchases: All purchases of U.S. land by Chinese nationals or CCP-linked entities must be suspended and reviewed. This includes farmland, residential, and commercial real estate.

2. Federal Database of Foreign Land Ownership: It’s astounding that we don’t even track this comprehensively. The American people deserve to know how much of their country is already owned by a regime that hates them.

3. End the Exploitative Visa and Mortgage Schemes: Crack down on foreign nationals using absurd mortgage terms or student/work visas as cover for land grabs. These are not organic immigrants seeking the American dream—they are emissaries of a regime with an agenda.

4. Take National Security Seriously Again: It’s time to treat economic infiltration as seriously as military threats. Land is power. And power ceded without a fight is rarely reclaimed without one.

This is what a silent invasion looks like. No missiles, no marching armies—just a slow accumulation of control by way of apathy, distraction, and money.

While we argued about bathrooms, the Chinese Communist Party bought our farms, our houses, and our future.

Time to wake up.