DeSantis Wants China Banned from Buying Floridian Property: ‘Huge Problem’

July 25, 2022 Updated 10:28 A.M. ET

TAMPA (FLV) – In an interview with Fox’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said that China should be barred from buying up American and specifically, Floridian, real estate.

“I don’t think they should be able to do it,” he said. “I think the problem is these companies have ties to the CCP, and it’s not always apparent on the face of whatever a company is doing — but I think it’s a huge problem.”

In June, DeSantis signed laws that targeted the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) influence in the state’s businesses and schools. The new laws increased penalties for corporate espionage for foreign regimes/companies and banned ‘Confucius Institutes,’ which are funded by China, off of Florida college campuses.

“We’re also probably going to do legislation next legislative session about our pension investments, with things that may be linked to the CCP. We don’t necessarily have a lot of it, but we want to make sure that we’re cutting ties so that we’re not funding our number-one adversary,” DeSantis continued.

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Late 2021, DeSantis railed against Chinese influence in Florida, calling out corporations’ “groveling apologies” when faced with CCP opposition.

“Go back a generation, and the idea of the American elites was, ‘If we allow China into the WTO and give them the most favored nation status, that will make China more like us.’ This experiment has failed and it has endangered our nation’s national and economic security.”