Trumps Kehrtwende beim Kauf von US-Ackerland durch China verärgert MAGA-Anhänger

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    1. From the article:

      During his 2024 campaign for the White House, then-candidate Donald Trump repeatedly pledged to block Chinese nationals and companies from purchasing U.S. farmland as part of his “America First” agenda, and shortly after winning a second term, his Administration moved aggressively to curtail Chinese student visas.

      Today, however, President Trump has reversed course on both issues, a development that threatens to isolate many in his base who view China as an existential threat to U.S. sovereignty. Trump’s pivot on the issues was drawn into focus following his visit to Beijing this week for a high-stakes summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

      In an interview on Friday following the diplomatic visit, Trump defended his turnaround, while offering little explanation for his change of heart.

      “Frankly, I think that it’s good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture, and many of them want to stay here. I think it’s a good thing,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on May 15, defending his plan to approve some 500,000 visas for Chinese students.

      In the same interview, Trump defended the Chinese ownership of U.S. farmland, directly contradicting his own campaign speeches in which he vowed to stop Beijing from “buying up our farmland” and warned that foreign ownership threatened American independence.

      “Look, it’s not that I love it. You want to see farm prices drop. You want to see farmers lose a lot of money, just take that out of the market. But they’ve had a lot of land for a long time. Obama did nothing about it. They bought a lot during the Obama Administration, and he did nothing about it,” Trump said.

    2. onceinawhile222 on

      Angry but still in his corner. They have joined the cult and even economic pain is not enough to deprogram them from their beliefs.

    3. They should either hold Republican lawmakers responsible or STFU. They won’t.

    4. Brief_Night_9239 on

      MAGA supporters won’t abandon Trump. They have turned into a cult. You know like the one in Germany. Got a leader named Adolf…

    5. MajesticsEleven on

      I dont want to hear anything about Trump voter regret unless the main message is that they are going to abandon Trump and vote for a Democrat.

      All these stories are just noise. No matter how bad it gets for them you know they’ll just vote Republican.

    6. SoothingWafer on

      1. Vote for Trump

      or

      2. Get everything you want, but you have to hate minorities less.

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    7. EyeoftheEelpout on

      Trump essentially gave Xi permission to invade Taiwan.

      So much for spreading freedom over the globe.

    8. ChillingWithHerb on

      This is insane. Especially since we aren’t even allowed to own a lot of technology (NDAA) that is made from China but the government itself can own property here. This guy is selling all sorts of back doors into our national security. Tulsi Gabbard is a verified Russian spy. Like two days ago Trump’s own official said that the CIA raided her home then quickly recanted it. Then all the money Jared Kushner’s made in the Middle East and Trump has him negotiating peace with Iran when he’s as Zionist as you can get. They’re raping the US blind just like they did all those kids in the Epstein files. 65,000 Epstein files were confirmed to be erased in the last couple months.

    9. I_heart_cancer on

      This article doesn’t mention anything about how JD Vance invested in AcreTrader through his venture firm Narya Capital, which was also an early backer of the platform. He never divested. And Senate disclosure forms only capture what he was required to report.

      The article treats Trump’s reversal as a political mystery. It isn’t. Trump’s own argument accidentally reveals the mechanism: blocking Chinese buyers would drive down land prices. He’s not wrong about that. But the people who need land prices to stay high aren’t farmers. Farmers need income. They need export markets, which the tariffs are destroying. The people who need high land valuations are investors holding stakes in farmland acquisition platforms like AcreTrader.

      So the full loop is: tariffs crush farm income and force distressed sales, feeding more inventory into the pipeline. The China reversal props up the underlying asset value. Farmers get squeezed from both directions. The investors collect from both directions.

      Trump stumbled into explaining exactly who benefits from his China reversal, without apparently realizing he was doing it.

    10. chickedychillin on

      I’ll say this. A dude who was crazy maga as fuck in my area seems to have changed his mind. He had SEVEN trump flags in his yard/on his fucking roof. He doesn’t have a single Trump flag up anymore and has replaced all of them with regular American flags. That’s been the biggest glimmer of hope I have seen. Not to mention I also hardly ever see any Trump stickers or flags or any kind of signs in my area anymore. So I’m seeing with my own eyes a much less rabid fanbase. 

    11. CatCatchingABird on

      > “Frankly, I think that it’s good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture, and many of them want to stay here. I think it’s a good thing,”

      Ok, so where did all of the immigrants go again?

    12. Not just MAGA, I’m an antifascist and secular humanist and I don’t like US land sold to foreign countries.

    13. Choice-of-SteinsGate on

      Humiliating. Trump returned from China with nothing to show for it after delaying the trip for months under the guise that it would work out better in the US’s favor.

      There were no concrete agreements, just Trump bragging about make believe deals.

      There was little to no progress on the middle east, trade, nuclear proliferation, AI and every other source of tension between our two countries.

      Putin is arriving in Beijing days after the US China summit; stating that he was watching the talks closely. Now he’ll get the last laugh and the better bargain.

      Xi told Trump that if the US interferes in their ongoing relations with Taiwan, that conflict was basically assured. Trump didn’t even push back.

      Xi set the tone, was assertive in matters over Taiwan, and Trump flailed.

      He thought he could swoon Xi. Xi not only saw through it, but exploited it.

      Because while Trump was groveling, Xi was more focused on China’s strategic interests.

      Xi walked circles around Trump while Trump was trying to form some kind of personal friendship with him.

      So much for „the art of the deal.“ Trump embarrassed himself and the US on the world stage.

      He literally toasted Xi as „my friend“ during their banquet together.

      > A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, asked at a briefing during the summit whether Mr. Xi considered Mr. Trump a friend, responded with boilerplate: “the two sides exchanged views on major issues.”

      The feeling obviously isn’t mutual. Trump no less called the visit a major success.

      > „Asked to name the summit’s most important achievement for the United States, Mr. Trump told Fox News’ Bret Baier: “I think the most important thing is relationship. It’s all about relationship.”“

      Take note of the stark differences between how Trump treats dictators like Xi, and how he treats his allies. It speaks volumes about his intentions and what kind of leader he idolizes and wants to be himself.

      Also take note of the stark contrast between China’s growing confidence as a dominant world superpower and the US’s current vulnerabilities on the world stage thanks to Trump’s disastrous foreign policy and his penchant for alienating allies and souring the entire world against us.

      Meanwhile, Taiwan’s government has been waiting for months for Trump to sign off on a $14 billion weapons package to reinforce their defense against Beijing’s military threats.

      But Trump pressured Taiwan to spend more on its own defense, and when asked during a Fox News interview if he would approve the deal, Trump said „it depends“ and that he would use it as a „negotiating chip,“ „it’s a lot of weapons,“ he said…

      This is despite the fact that we have already made assurances to Taiwan that US support would be „steadfast and non-negotiable.“

      A bipartisan group of senators also urged Trump before the trip to not turn support for Taiwan into a bargaining chip.

      This is probably because Trump wants to secure some trade agreement from China in return, but he doesn’t have the leverage because he lost the trade war to China and Xi Jinping successfully overcame Trump’s tariff threats and adapted China’s economic model to insulate itself from Trump’s reckless trade policies while making considerable improvements in AI and automation.

      Yes, while Trump has been straining our relationships with trade partners and alienating our allies, China has been filling the void left by Trump and ramping up its global influence, with countries around the world now turning to China for trade because they’re a much more reliable economic ally than the US under Trump.

      This likely helped contribute to China’s trade surplus, which contrasts to the US’s growing trade deficit.

      So It looks more and more likely that Trump will indefinitely withhold the $14 billion arms package to Taiwan in the hopes that he’ll get a trade deal that’s of little interest to Xi in the first place…

      That didn’t stop Trump from claiming that he had secured a deal in interviews afterward, which China then refuted.

      > Mr. Wang also suggested that the achievements Mr. Trump had trumpeted — for example, China buying as many as 750 “big beautiful” Boeing jets — were not a done deal. On Saturday, China said it would acquire some aircraft, but stopped short of confirming a specific purchase of Boeing planes.“

      Basically, Trump bent the knee to Xi after making China out to be an existential enemy for years, then departed Beijing with almost nothing concrete to show for it.

    14. roararoarus on

      So Trump starts a trade war with China. China then refuses to buy from American farmers. American farmers go out of business. China buys American farms.

      The art of the deal.

    15. oldpasswordforgot on

      > China Buying U.S. Farmland

      China is not buying farmland and real-estate only in the USA, they do this in many, many countries.

      But no foreigner is allowed to do the same in China.

      Seriously, no foreigner can buy land in China or invest there without having to take a local partner, be limited to a minority share of the partnership and be forced to do a technology transfer to the local partner. And it goes on, the list of limitations is scary and very unfair.

      Frankly, the reverse should be true. China should not be allowed to buy land/real-estate abroad or to own critical resources & infrastructure (like ports in Europe) and to open subsidiaries they 100% control in other countries.

      China is no longer a developing country and is no longer learning how capitalism and trade works. They are no longer vulnerable to more powerful foreign concerns that could bulldoze their way across China and laying waste of the local startups. They’re having it both ways and it’s not fair for other countries. You want to play with everyone else? Fine, play by the same rules as everybody, period.

    16. CelestialFury on

      Fucking idiots. With Trump, everything is for sale and to anyone that’s rich enough.

    17. edelweiss_pirates_no on

      I am laughing so hard right now I sharted.

      Eat all the bags of Dicks, farmers.

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