THANK YOU TEXAS~!
Posted on 09/06/2022 12:45:40 PM PDT by Twotone
A Texas law blocking construction of a Chinese-owned wind farm close to an Air Force base could ripple across state lines to inspire new laws deterring China from burrowing into American infrastructure.
The Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act—which became law in June 2021—prohibits companies and other entities from entering into agreements in Texas involving critical infrastructure if they are “owned or controlled” by governments or citizens of China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran.
“These nations must be banned from connecting into our critical infrastructure due to their rampant human rights abuses, illegal intelligence gathering, intellectual property theft, critical infrastructure attacks, and cyber system attacks,” Texas state Rep. Tan Parker, a Republican who first introduced the legislation, told The Daily Signal in a phone interview.
Chinese companies, usually connected to China’s government and Communist Party, have attempted to infiltrate U.S. infrastructure outside Texas as well.
Parker spoke about the law he sponsored at the annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council, held in July in Atlanta. ALEC, a nonprofit group of conservative state lawmakers, officially adopted his bill as model legislation for other states during the meeting.
Parker’s bill defined critical infrastructure to include communication systems, cybersecurity systems, electric grids, hazardous waste treatment systems, and water treatment facilities.
His successful legislation also authorizes the Texas governor to designate a country as a threat to critical infrastructure in consultation with the state’s Department of Public Safety and with federal homeland security officials.
“My prediction is more states will follow Texas and pass their own version of the Lonestar Infrastructure Protection Act,” Parker told The Daily Signal.
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China should be prohibited from owning anything in US. That actually used to be the law here. I guess it changed under Slick Willy, but W was complicit as well.
Guys at work who sit by themselves and have lunches of eel, rice and bat with egg rolls may be spies.
The Chinese will just “hire” another accepted country (any latin-American country) to purchase it for them instead.
That could be fun.
Let them almost complete the bird choppers, the seize it under RICO.
The state allowing the Chinese to buy up farm land better wake up. They may start growing food there to send to their home country because they cannot grow enough there and then send their military here to protect their asset.
May the spirit of midnight vigilantism rise in Texas . These ChiCom nationals are not invulnerable . Just make them fear to be there. End of problem
Xi, your hair is to die for.
Nice uniform too.
Mao would be proud.
5.56mm
True. Especially they should NOT own farm land, food processing plants or condos overlooking MacDill AFB...
Who the hell would decide to sell China land that is close to an Air Force base in the first place?
Windfarm my rear end.
Back in the old Soviet days, the Russians had a huge array of listening devices in Mexico aimed at the military bases in the southern US. Their base of operations was the USSR embassy in Mexico City.
The Chinese are more aggressive this go round.
If it’s Chinese, it’s CCP.
Dollar stores are single handedly keeping the Chinese Communist Party in power.
One thing we also have a lot of in Texas are Indians who don’t care for Chinese.
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