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Today, Explained

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Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A new Florida law will restrict where Chinese citizens can buy homes, and other states may follow suit. The legislation is eerily similar to racist land laws from over 100 years ago. Vox reporter Li Zhou and Hofstra law professor Julian Ku explain. This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd with help from Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The United States is obsessed with China, and China is obsessed back.

0:07.2

This obsession manifests in really obvious ways, a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon

0:13.1

hovering over the northern United States for days, but also less obvious ways.

0:18.3

Senate Bill 419 looks to ban the use of TikTok in the state.

0:22.6

The China-owned app collects user data that some worry would be shared with the Chinese

0:26.9

government.

0:27.9

Now it's manifesting in real estate ways.

0:32.7

State legislatures across the country are trying to ban Chinese citizens from owning land

0:36.8

here.

0:37.8

And we have a goal here, and that's to prevent countries that are hostile to the interest

0:44.2

of the United States from being able to buy up our farmland or other land that's so

0:48.8

important to us.

0:50.5

Coming up on today's explain how states are targeting Chinese land ownership and whether

0:55.9

the Constitution is cool with that kind of thing.

1:00.4

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1:03.6

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