China-bashing has been a staple of American presidential campaigns for a decade. Now state legislatures have discovered a taste for it
China is one of the only bipartisan issues at the moment, says Maggie Mick of MultiState, a consultancy focused on state politics. A deluge of legislation is coming before statehouses. Many have enacted laws similar to Florida’s on education and land ownership. Texas even tried to stop Chinese citizens buying property . The original bill would have banned even dual nationals and green-card holders from buying land.
For much of their history, statehouses legislated mostly on local issues or followed national policies. Now that one party controls the governorship and both chambers of the state legislature in 39 states, it is fairly easy to pass legislation—particularly compared with Congress. Both Republican and Democratic statehouses use these bills to register discontent with the federal government’s failure to act. But they have real consequences.
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