There is a massive amount of land owned by China that just happens to be nearby US bases all through the US. If Congress was smart.... well.... better put, if Congress could do a smart thing... it would be to force the sell of that land as a national security issue. I am much more concerned about that than Tik Tok. It is on the level of the kill switches found from Chinese equipment in our energy infrastructure.
There is no land
"owned by China" near US bases. As of 2022 there were between 350,000 and 380,000 acres of land owned by
Chinese investors, which is a minuscule percentage of the privately-held land in the US.
Congress has required, since 1978, all foreign entities buying land in the US to register those sales to the Department of Agriculture, which has issued a report each year.
In 1978, Congress passed the
Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act. Under that law, foreign investors who "acquire, transfer, or hold an interest in U.S. agricultural land" must report their holdings and transactions to the Agriculture Department. Since 1978, the Farm Service Agency has produced a (roughly) annual report detailing these filings, which is then presented to Congress.
Much of the fear-mongering about "China" owing land near US military bases stems from a 2022 NY Post article that claimed China, not Chinese investors, owned all that land. The NY Post also included a
misleading map that showed the "Chinese" land holdings as much larger than they actually are. Parcels owned by Chinese investors range in size from 1 acre to 132,050 acres. Each county that held even 1 acre of land owned by a Chinese investor is shown on the map as entirely owned by China.
Obviously the NY Post article was designed to mislead. Here's a better article:
An article in the New York Post claimed that land near military bases owned by Chinese investors created an "alarming" national security threat.
www.yahoo.com
edited to add: This should probably be a separate topic.