{"id":152492,"date":"2026-06-04T21:23:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T21:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152492"},"modified":"2026-06-04T21:23:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T21:23:37","slug":"us-farm-chief-says-reliance-on-china-threatens-american-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152492","title":{"rendered":"US farm chief says reliance on China threatens American \u2018freedom\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told lawmakers on Thursday that American dependence on China for food, fertiliser and other agricultural inputs poses an \u201cexistential\u201d threat, framing food security as a national security issue while defending the White House\u2019s reduced fiscal 2027 budget request.<br \/>\n\u201cIf we need to rely on China for our food and our fertiliser and all the things that come with that, we will lose what we understand to be liberty and freedom in this country. That\u2019s how important&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3356014\/us-farm-chief-says-reliance-china-threatens-american-freedom?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told lawmakers on Thursday that American dependence on China for food, fertiliser and other agricultural inputs poses an \u201cexistential\u201d&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152492"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}