In Project 250, we recognize two ideological forces as existential threats to Western civilization in general and to the United States in particular: Islam and Communism. And each of these forces has a nation that may be called its final boss: Iran and China, respectively. Economically, the “People’s Republic” of China is a market economy—not a free market, but hardly Communistic. Nonetheless, the Communist Party of China is determined to exploit the United States until they are strong enough to conquer or even destroy us.
Perhaps the stupidest thing President Nixon did, apart from Watergate, was open up trade with China. Inviting them to the world market did not soften up the big, scary monster, it only showed them the opportunity to exploit other countries to acquire the means to rule the world. Now almost everything we buy is made overseas, especially in East Asia—especially in China. We shall discuss in greater detail plans to gradually ban outsourcing to all countries in our trade agenda, but for now the biggest step to ending trade with China is that we must figure out a way to legally punish American companies who try to outsource to China, and any similar nations, and compel them to return manufacturing to the United States. We must also find a way to eliminate American usage of online Chinese services, including but not limited to Tik Tok, Temu, Alibaba Express, and Shein. Of course we cannot expect the CCP or its companies to take this lying down. When the FCC chose to ban the importation of DJI drones, DJI filed a lawsuit (except that even Beijing has banned the sale and usage of DJI drones in their own city). If any Chinese company tries to sue us or our government for prohibiting them from selling to our people, then to hell with them, I say. Even if Beijing did not distrust its own companies which are under its control, I would still proclaim that the United States of America reserves the right to block the importation of foreign products which may contain spyware or otherwise pose a national security threat, the same as every other sovereign nation in the world. If the CCP thinks their own company is a national security threat not to be trusted within their own capital, then how dare they attack us for not trusting them either?
Of course, ending trade entirely means no longer selling to them. We must expect, then, that our farmers will be gravely affected, as China is a major consumer of their soybeans. Project 250 aims to advocate for all Americans, but especially our farmers above all, and as such we concern ourselves in figuring out every possible way to empower them and to mitigate economic pain while keeping them as independent as possible from government assistance. We also, however, detest soybeans as a commercial crops, even I and Hilljack, as sons of third-generation farmers. We find soy’s ubiquity in the American diet does little good for our national health (the term “soy boy” exists for a reason, after all). We therefore have come up with the solution that grain buyers—and not by government mandate, but by their own volition—sell the majority of their soybeans over to China before we shut off trade with them. We believe that soybeans should be used in American food at a minimum, and cultivated in the fields primarily as a source of nitrogen.
Trading with China, even as it has virtually given up Communism, has been a crippling mistake. All Americans need to stop need to stop lionizing the country and admiring its exaggerated technological advancements. AI robots, record-breaking bullet trains, restaurants on suspension bridges, social media platforms, all of it is a facade, soft power propaganda meant to distract from China's atrocious human rights track record and freedom index score. In reality China is the greatest parasite and con artist on the international stage. Americans need to stop viewing China like a Western country, and when I say that I do not mean the eastern world cannot adopt Western values or play fair with each other and with Western countries, but that we need to stop thinking China will eventually come around in play in the world market. China does not play by the rules of fair trade. If the United States decides that we are done playing and trading with them, the severance with trade relations will likely hurt Americans more than it will hurt the Chinese, but we are Americans, we are resilient, and we can and we must recover quickly, because continuing to trade with China only helps them more than it helps us, and we must be an example to the rest of the world, that other nations can also gain their economic independence from China. Only when enough countries stop trading with China, enough to significantly affect its economy, can we hope for China to be willing to trade fair.
According to Laowhy86, a Youtuber who lived in China for 10 years and speaks of current issues within or pertaining to the PRC, Chinese companies, which are regulated by the CCP, are incentivized to make partnerships with western companies in order to gather information to bring home about those companies' intellectual properties, which they can make their own version of to sell to the West. That is how the Chinese steal our intellectual property, and furthermore, the CCP has full access to all information these companies have, as they can demand it to be handed over with or without a warrant. This is part is why Tik Tik (the banning of which is about the one sensible thing mandated by the Biden administration) had been considered a national security concern a few years ago. The CCP tried to reassure us that all the data of American Tik-Tokers is stored on servers located here in America. Here is the thing, however: those servers are owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company, so if the CCP demanded it, ByteDance could get this data for them. It is bad enough that our own government and companies spy on us; there is no reason we should tolerate any foreign entity, public or private, friendly or hostile, spying on us. We must somehow ensure that our businesses properly vet whatever foreign company they are looking to partner with for any reason, and make sure they do not partner with anyone associated with the CCP. It is but one measure we can take to protect our intellectual property and personal data.
When China cannot buy American technology or steal it from our companies, they steal it from our universities. No one at Project 250 wants to discriminate against students based on their national origins, and we’d like to think that when people from more authoritarian countries come to America and see how much freer and prosperous we are (as we have seen from Europeans coming here for FIFA), they will return home and tell everyone how they have been lied to, and, God willing, will eventually lead to the people pushing for change—real change—from their governments.
But as it stands, many countries, like China, are so repressive that anything about another country being better will be suppressed faster than it can spread, and even if everyone knew the truth, so few people are permitted to own firearms—aside from the military, a select few Chinese citizens are allowed to do so, mostly certain ethnic minorities and those who work in wildlife protection—that a revolt is powerless unless the military is on their side. In such societies it would be more practical—safer, even—to use any first-hand knowledge of a foreign country to the advantage of one’s home regime, rather than to encourage dissent. Take Wang Huning, for example. He came to the U.S. and visited at least 30 cities and almost 20 universities, and where is he now? He chairs the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and has been an important figure in the Communist Party since the 1980s. He wanted to be China’s Alexis de Tocqueville, and wrote a book entitled America Against America, which, while potentially a useful book for some much-needed national introspection and self-improvement here in America, is no doubt used for anti-American propaganda.
It is in our interest to carefully vet all international students who wish to study here from any hostile nation. Again, none of us want to discriminate against students who are considered enemies simply for an accident of birth; for all we know there could be some potential defectors or American sympathizers amongst these students. But in the name of national security, we must remain suspicious of anyone coming here from a hostile state.
Why has our government allowed the Chinese, the Iranians, the Venezuelans, and the Cubans to purchase American farmland? Why do any foreign entities own American soil at all? No nation—by which I broadly mean a government, a company, or a citizen—should ever own the land of another country, but if both parties agree to it and it benefits the home country, I suppose I have no place to tell them not to do it. Farm Bureau published this article in January 2025, which offers a decent rundown of all the foreign-owned American land. As the conclusion says, “The data reaffirms the majority of land is owned by investors from nations considered friendly to the U.S. …” Keyword: majority.
China and these other nations are not friendly to us. Who has been allowing their businesses to buy our farmland and why? The only motives (by which I mean, the reasons which China might claim to want to purchase our land) that I could find were profits for their private and state-run corporations, and the need for more land on which to grow food for their own people ( it is worth noting I could only find these claims from Google’s AI Overview, which gets its information from Reddit). Well to hell with them. To hell with their corporations, and to hell with their people. Do we want innocent people to die of starvation? No. But the security of our own people and assets comes first.
Of course, the issue is not without its dismissers. David Ortega of Michigan State University tried to dismiss the issue, saying that Chinese ownership of farmland is so small that it poses no threat to United State food security, and tries to suggest the issue has been made to be about xenophobia. The Cornell Chronicle meanwhile, claims, “No, China is not buying all U.S. farmland”. And obviously that is true: by all accounts we could find, the total of foreign-owned American farmland totals to less than 4%, and Chinese-owned farmland is only around 0.02% of all our farmland, though the Farm Bureau and Congressman Dan Newhouse, who had asked the same question we are asking, note that the numbers offered by the USDA are inaccurate and do not give the full story. But numbers are not even the issue, because I do not care if the Chinese buy 277,336 acres or 383,935 acres, or if they buy all 800+ million acres, or even one foot of soil, their government and companies are all enemy entities, and they have no business owning our agricultural land, nevermind any land in proximity to our military bases. This is not about xenophobia. It is about national security, and the potential national security disaster that Chinese, Iranian, Cuban, Russian, and/or Venezulean ownership of American land poses to our people.
How, then, does Project 250 suggest Americans go about taking these acres back? We have two ideas: buy-backs, or by force. We also see, however, two ways in which either course of action will go wrong:
a) If we take the land back by force (perhaps by armed Americans forcing any Chinese or other adversarial nationals on the land to remove themselves), the CCP and other governments may threaten retaliation—perhaps deadly retaliation—unless we pay them.
b) If we ask them to sell the land back, they may refuse, leaving us little choice but to use force.
As of the summer of 2025, Congress and the USDA have begun taking measures against foreign adversaries buying our farmland, as listed under the USDA’s National Farm Security Action Plan. The Farm Bureau has noted that China does not own as much of our land now as it had about 16 years ago, and some states—as they should—have restrictions or outright bans on foreign ownership of their land. The plan so far seems satisfactory to us, but, being government action, we do not expect it to fix the entire problem, even carried out to the fullest extent of its authority. We will not be happy until all this land is returned to the American people, and when Project 250 is adopted by the American people, if by that time even one square inch is owned by any entity from a foreign nation, we shall not rest until it has been returned to American ownership.