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He says Chinese purchases of American farmland are mostly individual wealth storage, not a coordinated strategy to control food or production.
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Farmland
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...that many assets that you can buy and create value. So farmland is just one of these assets where you can store your wealth...."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...that many assets that you can buy and create value. So farmland is just one of these assets where you can store your wealth...."
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"...that many assets that you can buy and create value. So farmland is just one of these assets where you can store your wealth...."
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"...real estate. They're not buying it because they want to control farmland and they want to control produce and any of that stuff. You're..."
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"...any time. So you want to move it overseas. And American farmland just happens to be a pretty good investment."
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"...million Chinese students in the United States. He wants Chinese by farmland. Um, so, so I, I think this is all happening really fast...."
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"...US, uh, um, economy. How? By US, by, by buying US farmland, by sending their kids to study in the US, by, by participating..."
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"...thing. Canada, China, U.S. China is buying up a lot of farmland in U.S., in Canada. Why do you think that is?"
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"...that means getting out of the cities and back to the farmland to grow food to create more sustainable supply chains and again you..."
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"...tariffs and transit to guarantee that while they're buying up our farmlands, while they're buying up insular installations, as people in the Navy will..."
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"...but he dresses up really badly, and he's going around the farmland and throwing salt everywhere he goes. He looks crazy, okay? And you..."
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"...look at is maybe resources, right? And resources, it's basically just farmland. So you would look at basically which areas had the most rivers,..."
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"...people they became very creative and they turn this marsh into farmland"
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"...The Athenians are a different people. The Athenians don't have good farmland, but they have a good harbor, okay? And the territory around them,..."
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