Putin's lip service to peace falters as President Trump loses patience with the Russian leader,
plus the U.S. moves to ban China from buying American farmland.
Food security, just like energy resilience, just like where we get our water,
that's all national security, especially in a contingency.
And advertisers target Mar-a-Lago's airwaves in a bid to get just one person's attention.
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I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News,
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If the Trump administration has its way,
buyers from China will no longer be able to purchase American farmland following years of warnings from state and federal lawmakers that it could use the land to facilitate spying or wield influence over the U.S. food supply chain.
Here was Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.
American agriculture is not just about feeding our families but about protecting our nation and standing up to foreign adversaries who are buying our farmland,
stealing our research and creating dangerous vulnerabilities in the very systems that sustain us.
Rollins said the government is also ratcheting up scrutiny on existing land owned by Chinese buyers and looking at ways to potentially claw back prior purchases.
China has downplayed U.S. concerns as overblown,
with an embassy representative in D.C. saying Chinese companies' investments had created jobs and economic growth.
According to Agriculture Department data,
Chinese-owned entities hold roughly 0.02 percent of American farmland or under 300,000 acres.
President Trump is dialing up his criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin,
telling a cabinet meeting yesterday that the U.S. gets a lot of BS thrown at us by Putin.