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Natalie Winters@nataliegwinters · Aug 31, 2026

EXCLUSIVE: An unidentified Chinese owner spent $21.2 million on California farmland just 16 miles from America’s…

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An investigative journalist uncovered a $21.2 million purchase of California farmland by a Chinese-owned company just 16 miles from Naval Air Station Lemoore, the Navy's main Pacific fighter-jet hub. The buyer's identity was deliberately obscured through a recently-incorporated shell company, and the military installation is not even on the federal government's list of sensitive locations requiring foreign investment review.

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    EXCLUSIVE: An unidentified Chinese owner spent $21.2 million on California farmland just 16 miles from America’s Pacific F-35 fighter-jet hub. The buyer’s identity and the land’s military proximity have never been publicly disclosed. I pieced them together. 🧵

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    The trail begins with a single entry in an obscure USDA database. It shows that a company called Long Feng International purchased 1,513.18 acres in Kings County in November 2024. Country of foreign owner: China.

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    Long Feng appears to have been incorporated just six months before the purchase. Despite the enormous transaction, available public records don’t identify the actual Chinese person behind the company. They also don’t tell you exactly where the land is.

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    The acreage was the key. I traced USDA’s precise 1,513.18-acre figure to 14 parcels in Kings County—then mapped them against nearby military installations. The closest parcel sits approximately 16.1 miles from Naval Air Station Lemoore.

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    Lemoore is the Navy’s West Coast “master jet base” and strike-fighter hub. It houses the F-35Cs and F/A-18 Super Hornets that deploy aboard aircraft carriers and project American air power across the Indo-Pacific.

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    The federal safeguard contains a striking gap. CFIUS can review certain foreign land purchases near designated military installations. But NAS Lemoore isn’t on the government’s current list—despite housing America’s Pacific carrier-based fighter fleet.

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    It took three separate sets of government records to uncover the full picture. Read the investigation: NatalieGWinters.substack.com