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U.S. states are debating farmland sale restrictions to foreign nationals following China's spy flight. Officials fear land owned by a Chinese company would risk national security.
In Congress and statehouses, the balloon's journey added traction to decades-old concerns about foreign land ownership.
HARLOWTON, Mont. (AP) - As U.S.-China relations cool amid trade disputes and espionage fears stoked by the Chi...
Near the banks of Montana's Musselshell River, cattle rancher Michael Miller saw a large, white orb above the town of Harlowton last week, a day before U.S. officials revealed they were tracking a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the state. The balloon caused a stir in the 900-person town surrounded by cattle ranches, wind farms and scattered nuclear missile silos behind chain link fences.
As U.S.-China relations cool amid trade disputes and espionage fears stoked by the Chinese spy balloon shot down off the Atlantic Coast, lawmakers in Congress and at least 11 statehouses are weighing legislation to further limit foreign ownership of farmland.