In recent years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has engaged in a troubling new power grab that could jeopardize the future of America’s food security.  Companies connected to the CCP are amassing hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland in the United States while simultaneously applying unfair business practices to undercut American agricultural supply companies.

On Tuesday, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) posted notice to the Federal Register and added several new companies to a list of entities it deemed as falling within the definition of “Chinese military companies.” As the Pentagon explained in its annual report to Congress, the Chinese Communist Party’s goal is to “to strengthen all the [People’s Republic of China]’s instruments of national power by melding aspects of its economic, military, and social governance” and “establish an infrastructure that connects the military and civilian sectors” in order to advance its interests.