Report: China Owns Farmland Next to 19 Military Bases | Newsmax.com

...raising fears of espionage and sabotage by communist agents.

• "It is concerning due to the proximity to strategic locations," retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert S. Spalding III told the Post. His work focuses on U.S.-China relations.
• "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," he said. "It is alarming we do not have laws on the books that would prevent the Chinese from buying property in the U.S."
• Using farming as a cover, Chinese landowners could use radar and infra-red scanning to view bases, install tracking technology, conduct reconnaissance, and attempt to fly drones over installations, the Post's sources said.
• The Wall Street Journal reported in September that there were more than 100 attempts to breach military facilities by Chinese nationals in recent years, including entering a missile range in New Mexico and scuba divers who were found near a rocket-launch site in Florida...