The growing Chinese ownership of U.S. land has become an unlikely battlefront in the 2024 race between former President Donald Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), and the rest of the Republican field.

While China is known to own just a fraction of American agricultural land — a little less than 1% of all foreign-held land, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) — its investment in agricultural holdings has increased dramatically in recent years.

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