The acquisition of American farmland by Chinese entities poses a direct national security threat due to the potential for espionage and disruption of the food supply chain.

“You have someone that is a adversary of the United States observing our military facilities trying to bring into pathogens to kill large swaths of agriculture and poison large swaths of agriculture, create carcinogens within that agriculture and then create bases of operations and own key parts of t”

He supports the use of tariffs as a strategic tool to force companies to return manufacturing jobs to the United States.

“And you know what these tariffs are now doing? You know what these tariffs are now doing? These tariffs are now forcing people to bring those jobs back to America.”