The legislators in the United States throughout the United States have made at least 240 anti -Erennia proposals this year, with the aim of ensuring that there are no public funds Buy Chinese technology or even shirtsCoffee cups and the main chains of tourists. They also target the sister city relations between American and Chinese societies.

After years of celebrating commercial relations with China, the states do not want to buy Chinese drones or government agencies to use Chinese applications, programs, parts, or public retirement systems for investment in Chinese companies. The new Kansas Law covers artificial intelligence and medical equipment, while in Arkansas, goals include sister city relations and governmental and local contracts of promotional elements. Tennessee now prohibits health insurance coverage of organ transplants that are performed in China or with members of China.

“The United States or China will lead the world in the next few decades.” “For me, I want the United States to be”

The batch began before President Donald Trump imposed a 145 % on China, but his situation encourages state officials, especially his Republican colleagues. Sanders said that her efforts are complementing Trump’s commercial policies.

Trump’s first period prompted the transformation

The anti -China proposals were presented this year in at least 41 states, but mostly in the legislative bodies controlled by the Republican Party, according to the Associated Press analysis usingPlules tracking programs.

Kyle Garros, associate professor of international affairs at the University of Notre Dame, who writes about China’s relations with the American states, said that Trump’s speech had encouraged this batch since his first term. Then, the Covid-19 bouquet was strained by American positions.

“The Trump administration has had a completely different message from the previous Obama administration about the state and local participation with China,” said Garros. “It tends to not see the value.”

An effort with a few political risks

David Adkins, a former legislator in Kansas, who is the CEO of the non -party council for state governments, said that playing a “national card” against China resonated with American voters.

“Politicians from both parties do not pay at all levels of the government, that is, the price for distorting China,” Adkins said in an email.

John David Mennich, a modern China researcher and assistant professor at London Economy College, has been largely attributed to the “targeted strategic pressure”, not the common pressure.

Chinese balloon officials

Critics believe that China is more hostile to America and belowPresident Xi JinpingUS officials say China has aPirate penetration prosperity for rentalTo collect intelligence outside.

Some state officials have also begun to see China as a tangible threat when aChinese balloon flewSarah Newland, a government professor participating in the Smith College, which is conducting research with Garros, said.

She said: “There is an idea that Chinese investment will actually lead to the spying of the Chinese government on individuals or the threat of food security in a specific region.”

China’s retired army colonel, Chris Crouvte, a “joint effort” of the US states and government. He defended a new law that greatly limits property ownership 100 miles (160 km) from a military installation in Kansas by companies and persons associated with foreign opponents – China, as well as Cuba, Iran and North Korea.

“We all have a role to play,” Croft said.

Some doubts greeting the efforts of the state

Reducing foreign property ownership is still common, with at least 46 proposals in 24 states, but critics are similar to imposing restrictions on selling snowfields to Miami residents.

Together, Chinese, Iranian, North Korean and Cuban interests have less than 1 % of 1.27 billion acres at the end of 2023US Department of Agriculture report.The share of Chinese interests was about 277,000 acres, or two hundred 1 %.

In Arkansas, the country’s capital, Little Rock, is only affected by the ban imposed on the ties of the sister city.

Even conservatives have questions

Fears about the anti -DENENA measures extend to the northern Dakota conservative, where a Chinese companyPlanstoDevelopedAgricultural lands near the Air Force base is inspiredChina combating effortsThat is spread elsewhere.

Some legislators in Northern Dakota wanted to strip the state fund for billions of dollars of oil tax revenues from Chinese companies. But the Senate killed a weaker version of the measure last week.

Republican Senator Del Batten suggested that the legislators who support the bill were inconsistent with.

“I think this body is now largely invested in the neck situations that have been manufactured in China, if we want to turn our relationships and look at it,” Patten said. “This is how difficult it is when we talk about doing something like this.”

Countries will not end with China

Minish said, if Trump’s tariff, China, said re -seize relations with the United States, this will undermine what countries have done. He said that if Trump is looking for a “sustainable season”, it is possible that the state’s measures will have little impact on China in the short term, compared to Trump’s policies.

However, countries do not seem likely to stop.

Goras said they have correct concerns about the potential Chinese electronic attacks and whether the critical infrastructure depends heavily on Chinese equipment.

“The vast majority of China’s threats to the United States in electronic space,” he said. “Some of these defenses are still not solid.”

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

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