In 2022, the Fufeng Group, a Chinese company with ties to the Chinese Communist Party, tried to exploit a flaw in the federal government’s review process of foreign land purchases to buy land near Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) found that it could not evaluate the transaction — which was ultimately blocked by the City of Grand Forks — for national security risks because the Defense Department had not listed the base as a sensitive site for national security purposes.

On Wednesday, Senate Banking Committee Republicans introduced the “Protect Our Bases Act,” which is intended to fix the security oversight to ensure the Chinese cannot acquire land near sensitive military, intelligence, and national laboratory sites.

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