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Florida has made it illegal for Chinese citizens to own land within certain distances of military facilities or essential infrastructure, and limits their holdings anywhere in the state to two acres. Notably, the intersecting radii foreclose any Chinese citizen owning land anywhere in Miami, and possibly other city centers as well.
https://apnews.com/article/florida-chinese-citizens-property-law-4aeecc7a9470d03726658f1ef7b1d1f1
Somehow the limit to two acres is actually more insulting than anything else.
Since China bans dual citizenship, this does not apply to anyone "naturalized or even 2nd gen Chinese immigrant". I would not feel particularly cucked by a similar law targeting Indians.
https://www.dualcitizenshipreport.org/dual-citizenship/china/
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China doesn't allow dual citizenship, so this isn't a practical concern for children of Chinese immigrants. I suppose it's still cucked if you think they wanted to ban people who were ethnically Chinese but had to settle for less, but it seems more likely to me that Florida merely wants to ban people who are connected with the current Chinese government and don't want to require a full investigation every time someone buys land.
It's theoretically possible for a person to be against Chinese immigration but perfectly friendly to ABCs.
Most of my Chinese friends report that these theoretical specimens are rare; far more common is people who hate Chinese immigration being repeatedly asked where are you REALLY from? Or catching the occasional racial slur.
More to the point, if you say "I don't hate you but I don't want more people like you to be here" that's iffy right off the bat; and it doesn't matter what's true it matters what one would perceive as an ABC. And you have to have terminal pathological levels of charity to one's enemies to believe it. In other words, a cuck.
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