Most likely voters of both parties support stopping developments on Chinese-owned property close to U.S. military bases after a Chinese spy balloon’s recent trip into U.S. airspace, according to a new poll.
The balloon entered U.S. airspace over Alaska, traveling over the U.S. mainland before ultimately being shot down by the U.S. military off the South Carolina coast on Feb. 4, authorities said, despite an earlier apparent flight path that would have taken it over Guam, site of critical U.S. military bases, according to the Washington Post. About 76.3% of 1,084 likely general election voters said the U.S. should freeze construction on or deliveries to or from Chinese-owned property near U.S. military installations in light of the balloon, the Feb. 22 to 23 Trafalgar Group and Convention of States poll showed.
Roughly 64% of polled Democrats favored such a restriction, with Republicans and others expressing about 89% and 75% support, respectively. More than 65% of black, Hispanic and white respondents supported freezing these activities on Chinese-owned property close to U.S. military installations, while about 47.7% of Asian likely voters expressed that opinion.
Grand Forks, North Dakota’s city council voted unanimously in early February to prevent the building of a Chinese Fufeng Group-owned corn mill on land close to Grand Forks Air Force Base. Air Force Assistant Secretary Andrew Hunter had said less than two weeks earlier that the project presented ” a significant threat to national security with both near- and long-term risks of significant impacts to our operations in the area,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
Chinese foreign investors held more than 191,000 acres of U.S. agricultural and non-agricultural land in 2019, according to the USDA. Republican Washington Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Dan Newhouse are championing the Prohibition of Agricultural Land for the People’s Republic of China Act, which would prohibit nonresident aliens, companies and other entities associated with the Chinese government from buying agricultural land in the U.S.
The Trafalgar Group poll had a 2.9% margin of error.
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