Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-N.C., told Newsmax on Friday there’s a need to immediately address a critical security issue happening inside U.S. military installations.

Harrigan said on “Newsline,” “You can imagine exactly how shocked we were when we discovered that right now there is a company, GNC, that is operating more than 80 retail stores on U.S. military installations that is fully owned and operated by a [Chinese Communist Party]-owned corporation. That is an absolutely outrageous breach of our national security.”

Harrigan said most of the attention lately has been on Chinese interests purchasing land adjoining military installations but that the situation is much worse.

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