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Manhattan Institute senior fellow Christopher Rufo shares details on the Stop WOKE Act in Florida on ‘Fox News Primetime.’ <\/p>\n
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/u> vowed to take on communist China, saying the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is not something that his state wants to be involved with.<\/p>\n
The Sunshine State Republican issued a press release on Monday regarding the meeting he held with the Florida State Board of Administration (SBA) members putting “woke corporations” and state investments in Chinese companies under the microscope.<\/p>\n
“If you look at how these major companies behave when faced with Chinese disapproval, they censor what the CCP tells them to censor, and we see groveling apologies,” DeSantis said in the release.<\/p>\n
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\n Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis welcomes Fox Nation Patriot Awards to the Sunshine State.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
“Go back a generation, and the idea of the American elites was, \u2018If we allow China into the WTO and give them most favored nation status, that will make China more like us,\u2019” the governor continued<\/u>. “This experiment has failed, and it has endangered our nation\u2019s national and economic security.”<\/p>\n
DeSantis also said he wanted the SBA to “survey the investments that are currently being done” and that when the state legislature returns, “they can make statutory changes to say that the Communist Party of China is not a vehicle that we want to be entangled with.”<\/p>\n
“I think that that would be something that would be very, very prudent,” the governor said. “I also think that our country as a whole, but certainly Florida would like to see more production and manufacturing re-shored, and we would be a great place to do that.”<\/p>\n
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\n Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks at a meeting commemorating the 110th anniversary of Xinhai Revolution in Beijing, on Oct. 9, 2021. (REUTERS\/Carlos Garcia Rawlins\/File Photo)\n <\/p>\n
“By retaking control of the state pension fund\u2019s proxy voting from outside fund managers who may pursue social ideologies inconsistent with the state\u2019s values or the financial interests of the state\u2019s investments, and by determining the state\u2019s exposure to Chinese investments, the actions taken today will further strengthen Florida\u2019s fiscal footing and signal to those in corporate America who prop up a genocidal, authoritarian, imperialist regime that they will not do so with Floridians\u2019 money,” the release continues.<\/p>\n
China has become the global elephant in the room as they host the 2022 Winter Olympics amid human rights abuses and the CCP\u2019s genocide of Uyghur Muslims. While the Biden administration called for a “diplomatic boycott” of the Olympics, many Republican lawmakers and potential 2024 Republican presidential candidates said the Biden administration didn’t go far enough and that the Olympics should be boycotted “completely.”<\/p>\n
“President Biden had the chance to actually stand up to Beijing\u2019s genocide and human rights abuses, but again, he has chosen appeasement and weakness over strength and resolve,” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said in a statement earlier this month. “Time and time again, Biden does the bare minimum when it comes to dealing with China, and it\u2019s absolutely unacceptable.”<\/p>\n
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