{"id":555950,"date":"2021-06-07T16:47:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T20:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=555950"},"modified":"2021-06-07T17:20:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T21:20:14","slug":"desantis-signs-bills-fighting-chinese-communist-partys-influence-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-signs-bills-fighting-chinese-communist-partys-influence-in-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Signs Bills Fighting Chinese Communist Party&#039;s Influence in U.S."},"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\">20<\/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-signs-bills-fighting-chinese-communist-partys-influence-in-u-s%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=555950&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-351.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed two bills on Monday that seek to fight against the influence of the Chinese Communist Party in the United States, the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/07\/desantis-florida-china-ccp-bills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Caller <\/a>reported.<\/p>\n<p>The first bill is meant to defend public institutions from \u201cundue foreign influence,\u201d the Republican governor said at a press conference in Miami, pointing out that it will prohibit \u201cagreements between public entities and the Communist Party of China or Cuba or any of these malignant forces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second piece of legislation criminalizes theft and trafficking trade secrets, with DeSantis warning that \u201cAnyone who willfully, without authorization, steals or attempts to steal a trade secret and uses it for their own benefit will now face a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis stressed that \u201cAll we are doing today is saying enough is enough. We have to start fighting back. Florida is doing that,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/politics\/fl-ne-desantis-china-bills-20210607-6eahx5bujfhdtiahid2kkztgby-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sun Sentinel<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The governor also discussed the Wuhan lab leak theory, accusing China of attempting a coverup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at what\u2019s gone on now with the coronavirus pandemic and the coverup of the origins of COVID-19, it is pretty clear that this was a virus that almost assuredly leaked out of this lab and Wuhan,\u201d DeSantis\u00a0said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2021\/06\/07\/desantis-amplifies-covid-19-lab-leak-theory-alleges-china-coverup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News4Jax.<\/a> \u201cThis is a lab where these scientists were working very closely with the Communist Party of China, as well as the Chinese military. When you had these folks fall ill who we\u2019re working in that lab last fall, the Communist Party of China decided to cover it up. They didn\u2019t give any information out. They didn\u2019t ask for any assistance they didn\u2019t give a heads up to anybody. They tried to cover it up. And basically, the world has had to endure over a year and a half.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor added that \u201cI really hope that we\u2019re going to have accountability for the origins of the COVID pandemic, because this just did not need to happen. The Chinese Communist Party is primarily to blame, but there\u2019s also American money that very well may have flown to Wuhan,\u201d the Daily Caller reported<\/p>\n<p>He \u00a0also said that he has considered Beijing as an adversary to the U.S. for a long time, stating the the World Health Organization \u201cis in the pocket of the Communist Party of China (CCP). They basically were having everybody look the other way. The idea was to try to whitewash the role of the CCP in this virus and it wasn\u2019t just WHO,\u00a0it wasn\u2019t just bureaucracies. You saw the academic community largely circle the wagons and defend the CCP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis, who is considered\u00a0a future Republican presidential contender, stressed that \u201cIf 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,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/florida\/story\/2021\/06\/07\/desantis-joins-gop-base-in-attacking-china-1385328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed two bills on Monday that seek to fight against the influence of the Chinese Communist Party in the United States, the Daily Caller reported. The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279520,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-351.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"DeSantis Signs Bills Fighting Chinese Communist Party&#039;s Influence in U.S.","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-351.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"DeSantis Signs Bills Fighting Chinese Communist Party&#039;s Influence in U.S.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555950","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}