This week, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that the Chinese are buying farmland near military bases in the United States so they can launch drones over the area to spy on the bases.
Cruz made his comments during the most recent episode of his “Verdict” podcast with co-host Ben Ferguson. They notably come about a year after Chinese spy balloons were spotted crossing the country.
“There were multiple Chinese spy balloons, and the Biden administration didn’t bother to tell anyone about them,” Cruz said. “Until finally some ranchers in Montana spotted this one and they got outed on the internet. Were it not for that, we wouldn’t even know about this one. They kept it secret that the Chinese had been sending spy balloons over U.S. airspace, over U.S. military bases. They’re engaged in active espionage against us.”
“The Chinese are buying up land and they’re claiming they’re buying it up for farming or ranching, but it allows them to set up reconnaissance sites that allows them to install tracking technology, to use radar, to use infrared scanning, and to view the bases, and from there, to attempt to fly drones over the bases and engage in surveillance,” he later added. “And I gotta say, it is insane that we are allowing the Chinese to do this, this should be illegal, we should not allow the Chinese Communists to buy land anywhere near our bases.”
Cruz went on to say that Democrats have resisted preventing China purchasing land around U.S. Military bases because “today’s Democrat Party is structurally pro-China.” He noted that the Democrats’ largest doners, like big tech, are all heavily reliant on China.
