Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed two more pieces of major legislation on Monday, this time targeting Chinese Communist party influence in the United States.
HB 1523 criminalizes ‘trafficking in trade secrets’, while HB 7017 aims to prevent foreign influence in America’s higher education system. The latter implements strict vetting of foreign researchers to avoid espionage and requires state agencies to disclose certain donations from ‘countries of concern’, which consist of China, Cuba, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Venezuela.
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