Who’s behind the Chinese takeover of the world’s biggest pork producer?

Center for Investigative Reporting

One year ago, a Chinese company bought Smithfield Foods. To date, the $4.7 billion deal is the biggest Chinese acquisition of a U.S. company in history.

From the story: "The deal came two years after China's communist government issued an edict directing its food industry to scour the globe in search of agricultural resources, prompting concerns about the government’s role in the takeover."

The Center for Investigative Reporting spent months examining the deal. The results of their investigation aired in a two-part broadcast on PBS NewsHour.

Watch both segments at CIR.