Some proposals are so obviously sensible that objections should be summarily swept aside. Such is true of a bill just introduced by multiple Republican senators to ban affiliates of adversarial regimes from buying land near U.S. military installations.
FILE - China's defense ministry spokesman Tan Kefei attends a news conference in the venue of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN's Defense Ministers' Meeting in Siem Reap, Cambodia, on Nov. 22, 2022. China’s Defense Ministry said in a statement Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, it refused a call from U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin following the shooting down of an alleged Chinese spy balloon because the U.S.
Frankly, this is such an obviously good idea that it is a major blot on the record of the Democratic Senate majority that they didn’t make this bill a priority for passage when Cruz introduced it as a stand-alone bill in April 2021 and also tried to attach it to the National Defense Authorization Act that same year. All four governments listed in the bill are hostile to the United States, and at least Russia and China conduct major espionage and surveillance against this nation.
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