{"id":34542,"date":"2025-06-20T19:51:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T19:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=34542"},"modified":"2025-06-20T15:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T19:51:17","slug":"ethan-brooks-on-chinese-farmland-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/ethan-brooks-on-chinese-farmland-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethan Brooks on Chinese Farmland Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is a worthwhile question, but this map vastly, VASTLY misrepresents the size of Chinese holdings. <\/p>\n

Best figures I\u2019ve seen are ~350k acres total. We have private ranches in TX bigger than that. At the scale of this map, all Chinese farmland together would total about the<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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This is a worthwhile question, but this map vastly, VASTLY misrepresents the size of Chinese holdings. <\/div>\n
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Best figures I\u2019ve seen are ~350k acres total. We have private ranches in TX bigger than that. At the scale of this map, all Chinese farmland together would total about the size of that one dot in W. Virginia<\/div>\n
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Still a good question but we need to be honest about the data<\/div>\n
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    Ethan Brooks \u2066\u202a@damn_ethan\u202c\u2069 This is a worthwhile question, but this map vastly, VASTLY misrepresents the size of Chinese holdings. Best figures I\u2019ve seen are ~350k acres total. We have private ranches in TX bigger than that. At the scale of this map, all Chinese farmland together would total about the   6\/13\/25, 11:28\u202fAM […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}