CCP-Tied Activists in the Midwest Desperately Fight to Keep Chinese Land Grabs Alive Near US Bases

A network tied to the Chinese government is mobilizing activists to protest two Republican-sponsored U.S. national security bills, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.

Midwest affiliates of United Chinese Americans (UCA), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, first packed a March 17 Ohio House hearing with dozens of opponents to H.B. 1, an Ohio bill which would prohibit citizens of “foreign adversary” nations from acquiring property near military installations, before allegedly chasing down proponents in the capitol hallway to pepper them with questions.

Several days later, UCA and its Iowa chapter staged a protest on March 21 at the Hawkeye State’s capitol against H.F. 2513, which would ban Iowa’s universities from hiring H-1B visa holders from foreign adversary nations.

While the UCA network frames recent activism as opposition to “discriminatory” and “anti-immigrant” bills, a significant number of UCA’s leaders have served as members of the Chinese government and/or in arms of