{"id":1802398,"date":"2023-01-11T12:04:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T17:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1802398"},"modified":"2023-01-11T12:11:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T17:11:47","slug":"desantis-vows-to-bar-chinese-communist-party-operatives-from-buying-up-florida-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-vows-to-bar-chinese-communist-party-operatives-from-buying-up-florida-property\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Vows To Bar Chinese Communist Party Operatives From Buying Up Florida Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-vows-to-bar-chinese-communist-party-operatives-from-buying-up-florida-property%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1802398&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-mounts-anti-woke-offensive-at-public-florida-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida Governor Ron DeSantis<\/a> isn\u2019t putting out the Sunshine State\u2019s welcome mat for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/we-do-have-national-security-concerns-fbi-director-warns-chinese-community-party-uses-tiktok-to-compromise-american-privacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chinese Communist Party<\/a>Tuesday&#8217;s pledge to stop operatives purchasing property.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis pointed out that people who have ties to CCP were \u201cgobbling up land\u201d The U.S. and other Western Hemisphere countries have been affected, raising concerns that President Xi&#8217;s regime is establishing tentacles abroad. He said that Beijing was working together with globalists to weaken the West. The strategy includes buying property.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they have interests that are opposed to ours and you see how they\u2019ve wielded their authority, especially with President Xi, who\u2019s taken a much more Marxist turn since he\u2019s been ruling China, [it] is not in the best interests of Florida to have the Chinese Communist Party owning farmland, owning land close to military bases,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p>China holds more than 1.2 Million acres of U.S. land. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmhi.com.hk\/the-impact-of-chinas-land-buying-spree-on-the-united-states-economy\/#:~:text=While%20most%20of%20China\u2019s%20land%20purchases%20have%20been,the%20United%20States%20occurred%20in%20Oklahoma%20in%202013.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to\u00a0the American Enterprise Institute<\/a>. These holdings include approximately 700,000 acres farmland and nearly 500,000 acres commercial and industrial property across states such as California, Iowa and Nebraska.\u00a0A Chinese firm owned by a billionaire with close CCP ties is\u00a0building a massive wind farm about 70 miles from Laughlin Air Force base in southwest Texas, according to a 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2020\/06\/25\/texas-chinese-wind-farm-national-security-espionage-electrical-grid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Report<\/a> By Foreign Policy.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis made the remarks on a visit Bonita Springs (Florida), and said that he opposed China&#8217;s control of farmland and acreage in close proximity to military bases as well as the CCP purchasing houses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy view is, okay, yeah, no farmland, but why would you want them buying residential developments or things like that?\u201d He said. \u201cI don\u2019t want them owning subdivisions or things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis acknowledged that it will not be easy to craft policy that blocks people and companies with hidden ties to the CCP from buying into his state\u2019s hot real estate market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue\u2019s going to be if someone comes in and buys, it\u2019s not the CCP that\u2019s signing that,\u201d He said. \u201cThese are holding companies. You\u2019ve got to structure [legislation] in a way that will effectively police it. But yes, we do not need to have CCP influence in Florida\u2019s economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis, who served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee while in Congress from 2013-2018, said Florida has taken other measures to\u00a0curb the CCP\u2019s activity in his state, which he characterized as \u201cinsidious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe banned the Confucius Institutes from our universities and our state colleges,\u201d He said. \u201cThey have used those Confucius Institutes across the country to basically bring propaganda into our universities \u2014 as if our universities don\u2019t have enough problems already.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve also done things to limit their ability to fund research in our universities,\u201d He added. \u201cI think we\u2019re going to go even further than that. The legislature only went so far a couple years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis is thought to be considering a presidential bid in 2024. He lamented that Wall Street, the entertainment industry, and Wall Street seem willing to placate China to tap its market. He also said that the U.S. economy was too weak. \u201cintertwined\u201d China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it hurts us,\u201d He noted that the U.S. had relied on its opponent for medical supplies during COVID&#8217;s pandemic. \u201cIt hurts our economic vitality. It hurts our security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut this has been going on for many, many decades, so disentangling from China \u2014 I think it\u2019s something that is very, very significant going forward,\u201d He added.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis also stated that the World Economic Forum&#8217;s policies are also unwelcomed in Florida. The leftist group, which meets in Davos next week, is behind an array of global initiatives that conservatives say infringe on people\u2019s freedoms. The so-called Environmental, Social, and Governance initiative (ESG), which aims to require companies to follow far-left policies that are not dictated by shareholders, but socialists and other environmental extremists, is one example.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasically their vision is they run everything and everybody else is just like a serf, like a peasant,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cThey say they\u2019re going after energy, ESG, all these other things, and you see the Biden administration wants to nix gas stoves. Are you kidding me?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine how many people had the hurricane come through, didn\u2019t have power right away but were able to turn on [gas stoves],\u201d He added. \u201cYou cannot go down this road but that\u2019s exactly what they want to do, and it\u2019s really weakening Western society, Western values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis claimed that the CCP as well as the World Economic Forum work together to undermine the West.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019ve said in Florida is that type of stuff coming out of Davos, those policies are dead on arrival in the state of Florida,\u201d He said.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis isn\u2019t putting out the Sunshine State\u2019s welcome mat for the Chinese Communist Party, vowing Tuesday to block operatives from buying up property. DeSantis noted people with ties to the CCP have been \u201cgobbling up land\u201d in the U.S. and other parts of the Western Hemisphere, sparking concerns that the regime of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1802401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[9304,12956,4117,6092,6202,4980,5113,14418,4787,10067,5099,6195],"class_list":["post-1802398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-bar","tag-buying","tag-chinese","tag-communist","tag-daily","tag-desantis","tag-florida","tag-operatives","tag-party","tag-property","tag-vows","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1802401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}