True but in an instance like this i think it makes the power balance even more in our favor, ie China can't really ever start shit or step to the US when they are dependant upon us for food to the degree that a hostile relationship would collapse their civilization in weeks
(Not to you, Kyle.) Why is everyone so short-sighted?
Number one, their buying up agricultural land has nothing to do with its annual gross yield, it costs more in fuel than it's worth to grow corn. Last year, or two years ago, a carbon tax reduction was passed in the House. As long as Corporations spend X on Y amount of acreage including trees, or replant trees, they get tax write-offs. It's something insane like 250 dollars an acre, but it scales by 10 after 500 acres? It has some sort of wild qualifier like that.
In any case, corporations, in general, are purchasing forested land by the tonne, peck, and boat load.
Here:
https://esgclarity.com/jp-morgan-firm-buys-500m-in-land-partly-for-carbon-capture/