Arizona moves to ban land purchases by Chinese communists

On a party-line vote Wednesday the Senate Commerce Committee approved legislation making it illegal for the Chinese Communist Party to own property in Arizona. That part of SB 1342 appeared to get no opposition.

But the proposal by Sen. Wendy Rogers, R-Flagstaff, seeks to extend the same prohibition to any individual who is a member of the Chinese Communist Party.

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fight," she said, quoting from the ancient Chinese military treatise by Sun Tzu.

That rang a bell with Sen. Sonny Borrelli, R-Lake Havasu City, who is retired military and called himself "a student of Sun Tzu." What that philosophy involves, Borrelli said, is "encroachment, either through purchase, or their grab a little, nudge a little, grab a little, nudge a little."

One thing Rogers did make clear: Her only concern is Communists — as in members of the CCP — from China. Those from other countries would remain free to spend their money and buy up what they want.

Rogers also made no mention of home-grown communists. And there appear to be at least a couple of dozen.

17 Feb 22

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