“Disney has done a lot to partner with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and has really made a fortune over there without raising a peep about any of their atrocities,” DeSantis announced Monday throughout a press conference declaring $30 million for manatee protection.
“I think China is the number one geopolitical threat that this country faces,” he stated. “I think that we need to have strong alliances with the Japanese, South Koreans, I think India needs to be in our orbit to try to check China’s influence around the world, but particularly when you start talking about the Western Hemisphere, it’s a big problem. It’s not just South America, you see them in the Caribbean flexing their muscle.”
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“So, we need to get real here and understand that China’s a threat. I think you’ve had the ruling elite in this country for decades have basically done all they can to elevate China. And a lot of them made a fortune off it. But it’s made our country weaker, it’s eroded our industrial base,” the governor announced.
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The Walt Disney Company has used its voice to campaign against DeSantis’ parental rights law. The new legislation bans Florida school employees or third parties from giving classroom instruction on “sexual orientation” or “gender identity” in kindergarten through third grade.
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Despite their activism on the parental rights bill, Disney has garnered denouncement for being silent on the continuous Uyghur Muslim genocide in China – even as they film movies there. DeSantis signed legislation last month stripping Walt Disney World of a decades-old special agreement that enabled the theme park to govern itself.
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DeSantis went on to say that Chinese President Xi Jinping is “tougher” than any leader China has ever had, which makes the nation even more hostile to the U.S. and its allies. “It’s a hostile regime and their influence in our hemisphere is not something that is in the best interest of the United States of America,” he stated.
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The governor took a shot at Biden and his “floundering” leadership against the CCP.
DeSantis replied to how the U.S. could fix its image on the world stage: “It’s sad, but we have a floundering President, there’s no leadership right now. That’s just the reality, I wish that wasn’t the case. But we have somebody who clearly isn’t capable of exercising the type of leadership on the world stage that is going to inspire confidence from our allies and that is going to inspire fear from our adversaries.”
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