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🚨 Representatives from 17 U.S. states secretly traveled to Chicago for closed-door meetings with officials from the Chinese Communist Party, including known spy fronts like the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), focusing on America's farmland and food supply.

• The gatherings were hosted by the U.S. Heartland China Association, which portrayed the meetings as efforts to "build resilient partnerships."

Underneath the nice name, the sessions provided Beijing's operatives, potentially including figures like John Rogers (indicted for spying) and Wenbin Wu (linked to a Federal Reserve paper), with direct, private access to U.S. agriculture executives, such as Lenny Schmidt of Nutrition Bar Confectioners, and state leaders, raising alarms about foreign influence over critical national resources.