Attorney General Kris Kobach floated a proposal Tuesday calling on the Kansas Legislature to ban foreign individual and corporate purchases of parcels of land bigger than 10 acres and to limit leases of land by foreign entities to two years in a bid to constrain the influence of adversarial countries such as China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. Kobach, who testified before a joint House and Senate committee dedicated to foreign investments and land purchases, said the solution to bigger and bigger slices of Kansas’ 52 million acres being gobbled up by companies, people or governments outside the United States was obvious. “U.S. citizens and companies must control our own land,” Kobach said. “It’s a hedge against the threat China and other foreign bad actors pose to our supply chain and our food security.”
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