{"id":555706,"date":"2021-06-07T15:36:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T19:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=555706"},"modified":"2021-06-07T15:36:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T19:36:02","slug":"ron-desantis-signs-bills-cracking-down-on-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ron-desantis-signs-bills-cracking-down-on-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron DeSantis Signs Bills Cracking Down on China"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fron-desantis-signs-bills-cracking-down-on-china%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=555706&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--><div readability=\"28.819004524887\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Bills ban Confucius Institutes, target intellectual property theft<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1311497667-736x555-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1311497667-e1622642782984.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1311497667-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1311497667-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1311497667-112x85.jpg 112w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1311497667-651x491.jpg 651w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R.) \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 June 7, 2021 3:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"77.297931583134\">\n<p><span>Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R.) signed two bills Monday cracking down on Chinese influence in the state&#8217;s businesses and schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One of the bills addresses the influence of foreign adversaries by upping penalties for corporate espionage conducted on behalf of foreign regimes or companies. The second bill forbids agreements between public entities in Florida and seven &#8220;countries of concern,&#8221; including China, Russia, and Iran. DeSantis said in a Monday press conference the second bill would kick <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/confucius-institutes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/confucius-institutes\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1623174003215000&#038;usg=AFQjCNF0SlcDAIS3Us_S1nYwAE459zITqw\">Confucius Institutes<\/a>\u2014cultural centers funded by China that some U.S. officials have labeled a national security threat\u2014off of college campuses in Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The governor said the two bills show Florida is &#8220;fighting back&#8221; against China as lawmakers in Washington struggle to do so.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;If you look right now, there is no single entity that exercises a more pervasive, nefarious influence across a wide range of American industries and institutions than the Communist Party of China,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;Enough is enough, we&#8217;ve got to start fighting back\u2026. Florida is doing that.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Florida is no stranger to Chinese influence in its schools. In February, the Department of Justice indicted a Chinese researcher at the University of Florida for committing fraud to obtain $1.75 million in grants from the school and the National Institutes of Health for medical studies. In 2018, Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) urged four Florida universities and a public high school to cut ties with their own Confucius Institutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The theft of intellectual property by the Chinese Communist Party is commonplace across the country. FBI director Chris Wray <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/548177-wray-fbi-opens-investigation-into-china-every-10-hour\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> in April 2020 that his agency opens an investigative case into China&#8217;s actions every 10 hours. Monday&#8217;s legislation would criminalize the theft of trade secrets and elevate the penalties for doing so on behalf of foreign actors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The governor also said it is &#8220;pretty clear&#8221; the Chinese Communist Party covered up the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, endorsing the increasingly popular <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/house-dems-sign-on-to-investigate-whether-virus-leaked-from-chinese-lab\/\"><span>theory<\/span><\/a><span> that the virus may have emerged from a lab leak at China&#8217;s Wuhan Institute of Virology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;If you look at what\u2019s gone on now with the coronavirus pandemic and the coverup of the origins of COVID-19, it\u2019s pretty clear that this was a virus that almost assuredly leaked out of this lab in Wuhan,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;They covered it up, and they need to be held accountable for this.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Bills ban Confucius Institutes, target intellectual property theft  Florida Gov. 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