China is bad for America — and all the pols go wink, wink

OPINION:

Under the guise of farming, China’s communists are well positioned to surveil, track and possibly take down America’s military. That’s because the Chinese, according to a recent New York Post story, own almost 350,000 acres of prime agricultural properties located, coincidentally enough, wink, wink, cough, cough, alongside 19 U.S. military bases inside America.

Honestly, it’s high time to take dramatic action against the communists from China who seek to destroy America the great.

Everybody knows the Chinese Communist Party is a threat to freedom.

Everybody knows the CCP has for years been making inroads into America — infiltrating America’s schools, America’s social media, America’s economy, America’s culture. Hearings have been held about it; Congress has been debating over it; Republicans have recanted on their former wayward ideas that China, given the right incentives, would revoke its communist ways and go full-blown capitalist. Ain’t gonna happen. No way, no how; leopards don’t lose their spots and neither do communists their wicked ways.

So in the wake of balloon-flying spying China, now we’ve got a report that — hey now, ho now, what do you know now — the commies have taken up choice spots next to America’s military bases.

Where exactly?

The Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego, California, for one. MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, for another. Fort Cavazos in Killeen, Texas, for yet another.

It’s concerning. In fact, it’s so concerning, everybody acknowledges it’s concerning.

“It is concerning,” said retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding III, speaking to the Post.

You don’t say.

“These locations can be used to set up intelligence collection sites and the owners can be influential in local politics as we have seen in the past,” Spalding continued.

You don’t say!

But here’s the real concerning part: America keeps having this conversation about the perils of China’s communists — but little is actually legislative. Little gets done to turn away the communists from America’s soil.

“It is alarming,” Spalding said, “we do not have laws on the books that would prevent the Chinese from buying property in the U.S.”

So simple. So easy. Such a very simple and easy fix. Perhaps we have too many political leaders who’ve thrown in with China’s grand designs to take over the world — to unseat America as the go-to and be-all and end-all of importance on the international stage — and they don’t want to be sidelined when the unseating occurs because they’re afraid they’ll be tossed to the side. They’re worried the communists will take their long memories and their political enemies’ lists and use them to exact revenge on those who fought the CCP upswing, and the CCP spread, and the CCP brand. They’re afraid America really is on the decline and that China is the heir apparent for global leader, and they want to make sure they’re seen as choosing their friends wisely.

Turning away the communist influences in America is about as simple as keeping out illegals — or should be — and that is to say: It’s a simple process. Keeping out illegals means closing borders and allowing in only those who pass constitutional muster and medical standards and security checks. Keeping out communists from China means preventing communists from China from owning any properties that could compromise America’s national security — or preventing communists from China from schooling youth at America’s colleges — or stopping communists from China from taking over U.S. movie theaters and pork producers and home mortgages and basketball teams. It’s not brain surgery. It’s actually pretty simple.

The only thing lacking is political will.

And the only reason political will is lacking is that too many of our politicians are more beholden, for whatever the reason, to China’s interests than America’s. 

We all know China is bad for America. Now let’s take the common sense steps that have been missing from that acknowledgment for years: bold legislative action that targets and bars communist infiltration of this country.

• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE  or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.