Dear Chairman Hill, Ranking Member Waters, and Members of the Committee:

Thank you for the opportunity to submit a statement for the record related to the hearing entitled “Examining Policies to Counter China’ on Tuesday, February 25, 2025. China poses serious challenges to the United States, but Washington’s policy responses over the last two administrations have been woefully inadequate.

Attached to this letter is a blog post titled, “Chinese Ownership of U.S. Farmland: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff”, which offers concrete policy recommendations for outcompeting China economically in the 21st century.