local lawmakers tell me they like smithfield. they support smithfield here in north carolina. that law will prevent foreign countries, adversaries like china, russia, iran, state controlled entities purchasing agricultural land or land 25-miles from a military base. neil: lydia thank you. this is a bipartisan concern about chinese scooping up all the land. we have a new york assemblyman. good to have you back, assemblyman. this is a worry for you, people think of new york, new york city, but don't think of farmland, rural areas. that is most of the state. so you're concerned about what the chinese are doing. if you could spell it out? >> i'm sorry, i can't -- neil: can you hear us? okay. just to explain what he was doing, we'll take a quick break, maybe fix things up here. in new york as well, a bipartisan effort to rein in on all the chinese investment bringing together democrats and republicans. it happens. more after this. .. this small thing, is the next big thing in dia this s woah.hing, it shows your glucose, and predicts where it's headed, just like that. it's not magic

, with lot investment in north carolina, will impact smithfield.ample is the world's largest animal processors located not far from me, this chinese company, wh group, has access to that technology. they worry about that. stuart: very interesting, thank you very much indeed. janet yellen will get big big speech tomorrow. the topic, economic ties between china and america. do we know the highlights? liz: national security likely address chip manufacturing, how to protect human rights, climate change and the debt. she has to strike this delicate balance between we compete with china but have to confront them and the evil things they have been doing but do so to keep the lines of communication open. not easy to do. tomorrow's speech is billed as the most extensive comment on the economic ties between two countries. a lot of people calling for decoupling. they can't just a couple when china puts sneakers on the feet and bones in the pocket. stuart: on climate change we sacrifice and they pollute. i wonder if the treasury secretary will say a word about

look at semester if smithfield from w.h. group over last 10 years our u.s.teadily investment in capital projects to improve farms manufacturing platform all those things improved good for u.s. agriculture. >> maria national security ask experts former adviser to secretary of state pompeo tell me numerous problems the chinese communist party government backed bank financed the deal between whgroup and smithfield ten years ago making smithfield vulnerable another issue china national telecommunication law requires every chinese person entity to cooperate with prc authorities i asked to explain whether when a contingency plan at the company if there were to be a conflict between united states, and china. he declined to discuss the topic saying he did not want to speculate that means, we don't know how smith field would act to protect america's core production and jobs, if there were to be conflict between america and china opinion. maria: good question very important reporting lydia hu this morning, a new report from the nonprofit safeguarding dsts more six chi

north carolina, smithfield. it was acquired ten years ago by a chinese company known as w.h. group. they insist the chinese communist party has no interest. they say smithfield employs 40,000 workers and owns 500 farms and works with more than 2100 local hog farmers. but now with growing tensions between china and the u.s., i asked smithfield how can the chinese-owned pork producer protect american operations here? watch. >> is there a contingency plan for something of that nature if there is conflict or growing tensions between china and the u.s.? >> again that's something i won't speculate on. we hope that doesn't happen. we will focus on doing what we do best, which is raising affordable, nutritious healthy protein. >> the smithfield processing plant is located near where i'm standing on this hog farm. the world's largest animal processing plant. 30,000 animals in a single day. many local farmers depend on them. some i've talked to tell me they are worried about that processing plant being owned by a foreign entity because it means information about that plant, how it apartments,

i would represent a significant development in the north smithfield program, rob mcbride, i was just era. so dana has become the 1st country to approve a new vaccine for malaria that researchers are calling a world changer. the vaccine known as are $21.00 is to be used on children age between 5 and 36 months. later, wallclear reports researchers are calling get a turning point in the struggle against malaria. in a global 1st gonna has approved a vaccine against the mosquito borne disease. the united nation says more than $600000.00 people die from the disease each year. on average one child dies every minute. and it's children who faced the highest risk of death. scientists, the oxford university in the u. k. say they've spent decades researching the vaccine and gone on is the 1st african country where it will be used and on young children between 5 months and 3 years old. the world health organization is also considering whether to approve the vaccine. $200000000.00 doses are to be produced annually signed to say, it's a game changer in the battle against a virus that is one of the

are not working, but the longer that you fight them, the more that things change studio be and smithfield. on al jazeera, more chinese military drills off to taiwan president visit the united states, the latest escalation between bay jing and washington of the island of the 2 super .

they own smithfield farms, the big pork if producer.not. and we're seeing what's happening around the world, or around the globe. they are inserting themselves into countries all over the place, even in our, our own hemisphere. and what we see there we don't want to see happening in the united states of america. we don't want to the take up in 10, 20, 30 years and find that the ccp, the communist party of china, has a stronghold on one of the most vital linkses in our supply chain, and that's our food supply. elizabeth: you know, john kerry sits on cabinet. he sits on the national security council. nobody knows who east on his payroll. we have house oversight chair john comber threatening to subpoena john kerry because he's flying around the world doing these negotiations with nations like china, but nobody knows what he's doing. and, again, we don't know fully who's on his payroll and what their remit is. let's get your reaction to florida governor ron desantis and a michigan farmer on this story. watch this. >> i'm going to be signing