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Re:High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid sho... by all2 on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @10:17AM (#28918331)
This is actually a thing, though. Chinese interests own a huge amount of land in the US, for example, and they're buying more every year [0].

[0] https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/07/china-is-buying-bil...

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Re:High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid sho... by rmah on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @11:02AM (#28918838)
That article says "As of the start of 2020, Chinese investors owned about 192,000 acres of U.S. agricultural land valued at about $1.9 billion". That's out of 900mil acres of farmland in the USA. So about 0.02% -- hardly a "huge amount".
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Re:High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid sho... by all2 on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @11:23AM (#28919106)
True. For added perspective, the top 100 largest land owners possess about 40 million acres throughout the US [0].

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-largest-landowners-i...

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