Source: Fox Business —
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has sent a warning to Chinese investors to stay out of the Sunshine State and threatened to take additional action to drive out the Chinese Community Party’s (CCP) influence.
“I applaud the governor’s leadership on this issue when we have got a Biden administration [with] their globalist policies,” Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis said on “Fox & Friends First” Thursday. “It’s not like leaving a key under the mat of the door for our enemies or our friends. They leave the whole damn house open.”
During a press conference Tuesday, Gov. DeSantis said the state doesn’t want to provide financial holdings to “hostile nations.”
“If you look at the Chinese Communist Party, they’ve been very active throughout the Western Hemisphere in gobbling up land,” DeSantis had said. “That is not in the best interests of Florida to have the Chinese Communist Party owning farmland, owning land close to military bases.”
I agree and applaud DeSantis for watching how much and where land is purchased by the Chinese party. Too bad the former president didn’t express these same concerns when Russian oligarchs purchased lots of property in Florida and Trump Towers.
Suddenly this publication which was previously informative is publishing Fox opinion statements. Neither interesting, informative, or actually helpful. St Louis also has big issues with West coast investors buying remotely then squeezing the money out of our communities as remote investors who don’t maintain their properties. I can give statistics on this, and you don’t even need my opinion. Give me information, and some actual sense of how the current administration is inviting Chinese to purchase Florida property more than any other admin, and I’d be interested. Otherwise this is politically charged nonsense, and definitely not journalism.