House Dems, Republicans team up to block CCP encroachment on US food supply

FIRST ON FOX: A bipartisan group successful nan House of Representatives is pushing to support China’s influence complete nan U.S. nutrient proviso astatine a minimum.

New authorities being unveiled by Reps. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, and Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., would unit nan Department of Agriculture to hatch argumentation ideas to preemptively mitigate threats Beijing’s ruling Chinese Communist Party could airs to American cultivation proviso chains, while astatine nan aforesaid clip rolling backmost legislative and regulatory barriers affecting home production.

"China has captured important marketplace stock for cultivation inputs that are captious to our home nutrient supply, ceding our apical adversary leverage and control," Hinson explained to Fox News Digital. "Iowa farmers person told maine firsthand that if China decides to unopen disconnected U.S. entree to these inputs, nutrient accumulation could slow to a halt."

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House lawmakers are eyeing ways to support nan Chinese Communist Party, led by Chinese President Xi Jinping, from earnestly harming nan U.S. nutrient supply.

She based on nan measure would "reshore this captious proviso concatenation to guarantee Communist China does not person nan powerfulness to restrict American nutrient production."

It would besides instruction that nan national authorities enactment connected apical of search nan wellness of home agriculture proviso chains and their vulnerability to China via yearly assessments. 

It comes arsenic Congress besides stares down China connected nan exertion front, arsenic nan Senate considers a recently-passed House measure to unit Beijing-backed institution ByteDance to sever its ties pinch nan celebrated social media app TikTok – aliases consequence nan level being banned successful U.S. app stores altogether.

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Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, is starring nan measure connected nan Republican side. (CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Like nan TikTok bill, Hinson’s authorities is besides backed by nan apical 2 lawmakers connected nan House prime committee connected China, Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill.

However, China hawks connected some sides of nan aisle successful Congress, peculiarly from agrarian America, person sounded nan alarm connected Beijing’s power complete nan world cultivation marketplace for years.

Those concerns came to a caput early past twelvemonth erstwhile Chinese institution Fufeng Group attempted to acquisition onshore successful North Dakota for a maize mill task – which spurred pushback some because of nan accusation of Chinese power of nan nutrient proviso connected U.S. ungraded and its proximity to a U.S. subject base.

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Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., who is moving for Senate, led nan measure connected nan Democratic side. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

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Meanwhile, China has grown its power successful different sectors captious to nan U.S. nutrient supply, specified arsenic accumulation and waste and acquisition of amino acids. Chinese manufacturers power up to 85% of nan world marketplace for basal amino acids utilized successful livestock feed, according to nan Social Science Research Network.

"These trends person created nan imaginable for Chinese manipulation of nan markets for these cardinal inputs, which could consequence successful reduced prime for producers and nutrient information issues for U.S. consumers," nan July 2021 study warned.