Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took his war against the Chinese Communist Party to a new level this week when he signed three bills into law that severely restrict the CCP’s ability to acquire land in the state of Florida, crack down on the CCP’s data collection of U.S. citizens, and ban CCP influence from the education system.

DeSantis signed three new bills into law on Monday — SB 264, SB 846, and SB 258 — a package the governor’s office called “the strongest legislation in the nation to date to counteract the influence of the United States’ greatest economic, strategic, and security threat — the Chinese Communist Party.”

A Chinese think tank designated DeSantis among the five most aggressive governors in the U.S. against the communist nation back in 2019, several months before the coronavirus pandemic erupted. Since then, DeSantis has continued to take an aggressive approach towards China.

The trio of new laws:

Prevents Chinese entities or affiliates from buying farmland in Florida or land near our military bases and critical infrastructure. Stops sensitive data from being stored on servers that might be owned by entities affiliated with the CCP. Prohibits the Chinese influence that we rooted out of higher education from working its way into [Florida’s] primary and secondary education institutions. Blocks access to dangerous applications, such as TikTok, on government and educational institution servers and devices.

“Florida is taking action to stand against the United States’ greatest geopolitical threat — the Chinese Communist Party,” the 44-year-old governor said in a statement. “I’m proud to sign this legislation to stop the purchase of our farmland and land near our military bases and critical infrastructure by Chinese agents, to stop sensitive digital data from being stored in China, and to stop CCP influence in our education system from grade school to grad school. We are following through on our commitment to crack down on Communist China.”

At a press conference where he signed the bills, DeSantis noted the numerous advantages that China has over the U.S., including how they use their government to create an unfair trading relationship with the U.S.

“Part of the reason we’re in this predicament is because elites in our own country, for a generation, have sought short term profits over long term U.S. interests,” DeSantis said. “They thought people were making money, that was good for some, and they didn’t have a long view of how that would work in terms of America’s industrial base here at home, or America’s security abroad.”

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The governor’s latest actions against China builds off legislation that DeSantis signed into law back in 2021. According to the governor’s office, those laws:

Strengthens foreign financial connection vetting and disclosure requirements for entities seeking tax-payer funded grants or contracts from state agencies or political subdivisions.  Creates heightened scrutiny of research grant applicants, foreign applicants for research positions, and foreign travel or activities of employees of major research institutions.   Requires universities and colleges to disclose foreign donations and grants of $50,000 or more to the State University System Board of Governors or Department of Education. State agencies and political subdivisions are required to report foreign donations and grants of $50,000 or more to the Department of Financial Services.  Prohibits specific agreements between state/public entities and the seven countries of concern (Russia, PRC, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Venezuela).  Creates new criminal offenses in Florida for the theft and trafficking of trade secrets. Anyone who willfully and without authorization steals or attempts to steal a trade secret and use it for their own benefit will now face a third-degree felony, punishable by up to 5 years in prison. Individuals attempting to sell stolen trade secrets will face a second-degree felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison If an individual or entity violates this law on behalf of a foreign government, the penalties are severely enhanced — reclassifying the felony one degree higher and increasing the offense severity ranking.

The 33-year-old Latino male who murdered several people in Texas on Saturday at the Allen Premium Outlets was an avowed neo-Nazi who praised the transgender terrorist who murdered several people at a Christian school in Nashville in late March.

The killer, whom The Daily Wire is not naming due to company policy about depriving mass killers of the notoriety they often seek, had a social media account on the Russian social media site Odnoklassniki. The account, which was first reported on by The New York Times and later identified by researchers at another online publication, appears to have been created in 2020. The Daily Wire reviewed his social media page which appeared to have been used more as a diary than anything else, as he apparently had no friends and received no engagement on any of his posts.

Initial reports that the suspect was a neo-Nazi and an incel were confirmed by strong evidence on the account. The killer shared photographs of himself that showed that he had a large Nazi swastika tattoo on his chest and a tattoo of SS Lightning Bolts on the side of his arm. He also shared photographs of SS Lightning Bolts and Nazi swastikas.

He captioned several photographs of other Latinos giving the Nazi salute with “My kind of people.” He also shared photographs of a Mexican Nazi group that he also described as “My kind of people.”

The killer also shared a photograph of Josef Mengele, a doctor at the Auschwitz extermination camp who selected Jewish prisoners for execution in gas chambers and conducted scientific experiments on them. The killer described Mengele as his “hero.”

In one of the last social media posts that he shared on the site, the killer glorified the transgender terrorist who murdered six people at the Covenant School in Nashville at the end of March. He praised how many people the shooter was able to kill and remarked “this is like the greatest accomplishment of feminism ever.”

In the same post, the killer seemed to attribute some blame for mass shootings to the media for the spectacle it creates behind mass killers like himself, writing:

The media f***ing proves it. They will never miss an opportunity to cover the event and cater the coverage exactly for sick f***s like me. Because the heart of the matter is: we all know it’s just a f***ing spectacle at this point, and the spectacle and the killer are far more interesting the the boring f***s who were killed.

In his final post, which was published on the day that he committed the atrocity, he wrote that he was scared about being confronted by his family for his actions and having them ask him why he did not seek help from a psychologist. He acknowledged that there was something seriously wrong with him in the post. He also wrote in his final post that he had been “thinking of moving back to Mexico.”

The killer served in the U.S. Army but “was removed due to mental health concerns” in 2008, according to the FBI.

Photos on his social media page showed that he traveled to the mall and took pictures of where he was going to commit the atrocity about 3 weeks prior to carrying it out. He also searched on Google for what time of day the mall had the most people.

His social media page showed a strong interest in pornography, strip clubs, death metal bands, journaling his psychotic thoughts, guns, and taking photos with any woman who was willing to take one with him.

In some of his writings, he became enraged when women did not pay attention to him and he overall spoke of women in demeaning and derogatory ways, saying that he did not want a girlfriend.