{"id":2008880,"date":"2023-08-23T03:06:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T07:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-military-report-uncovers-beijings-efforts-to-undermine-texas-land-sale-bill\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T03:09:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T07:09:06","slug":"us-military-report-uncovers-beijings-efforts-to-undermine-texas-land-sale-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-military-report-uncovers-beijings-efforts-to-undermine-texas-land-sale-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"US Military Report Exposes Beijing&#8217;s Plot Against Texas Land Sale Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fus-military-report-uncovers-beijings-efforts-to-undermine-texas-land-sale-bill%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=2008880&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--><h2>The\u200c Chinese \u200cCommunity \u2063Party&#8217;s &#8220;Information Warfare&#8221; Against Texas Bill<\/h2>\n<p>The Chinese Community Party (CCP)\u200c conducted a relentless\u2062 &#8220;information warfare&#8221;\u2063 campaign against a\u200d Texas bill \u200cthat \u200baimed to ban \u2063the sale of land to China and other adversaries. According\u2064 to a military document obtained by The Epoch Times, the CCP not only spread &#8220;misinformation&#8221;\u2063 to kill the bill but also\u2063 condoned &#8220;sabotage&#8221; and &#8220;assault&#8221; against\u200c its supporters.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, known as Senate Bill 147, was\u2063 sponsored by Texas Republican lawmaker Lois Kolkhorst\u200d and \u200cinitially \u200baimed to prohibit governments, corporations, and foreign nationals from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea \u2064from purchasing land in Texas. The CCP launched a massive \u2064campaign \u2063on its controlled media platform, WeChat, flooding it with false information to undermine the bill.<\/p>\n<p>During the first hearing on the bill, two witnesses who supported it required a police escort due to threats of\u2063 violence from WeChat \u2064accounts. The document included photos of \u200bsome WeChat accounts written in Chinese, revealing the extent of the campaign against the bill.<\/p>\n<h3>CCP&#8217;s Manipulation and Mobilization<\/h3>\n<p>One WeChat user\u200d even posted threats suggesting physical harm to proponents of the legislation. Simultaneously, WeChat \u2063groups mobilized\u200d over 100 opponents of the bill to attend the hearing as witnesses. The document highlighted how WeChat&#8217;s\u2063 efforts successfully rallied Democrats, advocacy groups, and the liberal media to oppose the bill, often unaware that they were aligning \u2063with the CCP.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force document emphasized that WeChat&#8217;s campaign had signature \u200ccharacteristics of other CCP-sanctioned campaigns on the \u200bplatform. It included tactics such as\u200b forbidding balanced discussions, kicking out\u2064 dissenting voices, and promoting radical and anti-American views.<\/p>\n<h2>Response and Opposition<\/h2>\n<p>Lois Kolkhorst, the bill&#8217;s sponsor,\u200b expressed her lack of surprise at the concerted \u200ceffort to defeat the\u2063 bill,\u200d considering\u2063 its focus on\u200b national security. She stated, &#8220;If the\u2064 CCP does not like it, then it must be a good \u2062idea.&#8221; Kolkhorst\u2062 also noted that opposition to \u2063the bill seemed scripted and organized from a central point.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the \u200dopposition, similar bills restricting land ownership for individuals connected to\u2064 China and other\u200c adversarial countries have been \u200dpassed in other states. Florida, for example, signed a law restricting land ownership, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-military-report-uncovers-beijings-efforts-to-undermine-texas-land-sale-bill\/\" title=\"US Military Report Exposes Beijing's Plot Against Texas Land Sale Bill\">federal judge recently rejected attempts<\/a> \u200cto \u2064block \u200dit.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese American\u200c Congresswoman Judy Chu introduced federal\u200b legislation to preempt &#8220;discriminatory&#8221; land ownership laws in states. However, the Air\u200b Force document\u2062 revealed that WeChat groups labeled the bill \u2064as the\u2064 &#8220;Chinese Exclusion Act&#8221;\u200b and its\u2063 supporters as &#8220;Chinese traitors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bill in Texas \u2063faced significant opposition from Texas Democrats and activists, leading to its failure to advance \u2064in the Republican-controlled House. A watered-down version of \u200cthe bill, restricting purchases\u200d of agricultural land,\u200c timberland, and oil and gas rights, \u2064was delivered to the House\u200d State \u200bAffairs Committee \u200bbut failed\u200d to progress before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-prevent-texas-voting-bill-from-passing-with-a-walk-out\/\" title=\"Democrats Prevent Texas Voting Bill From Passing With A Walk Out\">legislative session ended<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the setbacks, Kolkhorst emphasized that the countries targeted\u200b by her \u2063bill align with those listed \u200bin the Annual Threat \u2062Assessment by the U.S. Director of\u200c National \u200cIntelligence since 2018, under both the Trump and \u2064Biden\u200d administrations.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the CCP&#8217;s &#8220;information warfare&#8221; campaign against\u200b the Texas bill \u200dhighlights the extent\u200c of its efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/erick-erickson-a-quiet-existence\/\" title=\"Erick Erickson: A Quiet Existence\">shape public policy<\/a> and\u200b influence decision-making processes in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>campaign of disinformation and manipulation to undermine a Texas bill prohibiting land sales to China. The military document revealed that the CCP endorsed acts of sabotage and assault against supporters of the bill. The unclassified Tenth Air Force slide, titled &#8220;The China Threat,&#8221; obtained by The Epoch Times, exposed the CCP&#8217;s information warfare tactics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":904,"featured_media":2008881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"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\/2008880","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\/904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2008881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}