 is america banning chinese people from buying homes is this right is it wrong what's the real issue here yeah we gotta talk about it because this is going viral right now we're talking about bill 147 in texas andrew it just got passed the details haven't come out yet some people are saying it's racist some people are in the middle and other people like we need to just do this and even more man well there's a multitude of reactions we're going to go through and analyze them respond to some comments and then give our takeaways at the end guys so please hit that like button right now and check out other episodes of the hot pot boys you know what it is from frivolous to serious we're covering it all long story short the bill puts chinese citizens in the same boat as iranian citizens russian citizens and north korean citizens basically not allowing them to buy property in the state of texas yeah so for a while texas and other states have been trying to block chinese companies from buying large plots of land which i have to agree makes sense if there are chinese companies trying to buy a bunch of farmland obviously you probably want your farmland owned by domestic american companies however here's the super controversial part they are now potentially blocking individual chinese people who are not permanent residents from buying property now there's a lot of disputes over this some people who are say uh making the bill are like you know we're only going to stop the citizens that have relations to the government but obviously that's gets into a gray zone how does one determine whether a regular person that is a non-citizen has relations with the government or not so some people are very worried about where this trend could go being extrapolated andrew you don't think the chinese are like yeah hey guys we're like your number one trading partner how we end up on a list with like iran russia and north korea i get it we're not like best friends right now but can we get a like second tier and certainly there gotta be first tier enemy yeah that is all pretty awful list to be on i think that our pr department has made a mistake and uh we have to re-look at our marketing budget because uh somewhere along the way we have been put on the wrong list so it's andrew it's a co-course versus gene woo right so what did co-course say who i believe andrew that sounds like a uh a check last name because they eat those uh kala cheese over there in texas uh okay we can assume about our i think background kala cheese i'm telling you all right cold course is the senator who's pushing the bill through she is republican she did want everybody to know this is what she said in quotes i will make it crystal clear that the prohibitions do not apply to united states citizens and lawful permanent residents so do not worry if you are one of these people you will still be able to buy land right which does make sense for her to say that and it does sound logical however it does also sound very vague yeah it also sounds vague because like also what does it mean if she verbally says it it really just matters what's in the senate bill however i will say the statement senate bills are very very long and wordy so there's probably a lot of words a lot of jargon in there as a regular person i don't have a big into it i'm gonna get in my takeaways andrew i actually think that my final opinion on this actually is all about the details but moving on andrew what did gene woo say because gene woo was actually part of a protest in houston texas is china town against this bill yeah gene woo is a democrat and this is what he said china is texas's second largest trading partner and china is the third largest purchaser of texas goods a proposal like this could jeopardize all of those contracts all right well hey guys there are probably valid arguments on all sides right but let's get into some of the reaction on the internets someone said oh yeah so much for capitalism democracy and freedom and someone said yeah because in this case those things aren't in our natural interest yeah and you know what's funny this is a whole classic money versus military i'm talking about trade versus geopolitics because david basically what you're looking at is uh still a lot of people in america want to sell things whether it's land houses condos agricultural land to chinese companies because chinese companies and chinese people who are different they're not necessarily the same they have a lot of money so of course this is now the military and the national security is getting in the way of making money i would say that in any deal it takes two to tango and if you're going to regulate you got to regulate or tax both sides um i will say this you know it's really interesting to think about do national interests or national freedoms do they trump national interests and do these national freedoms only extend themselves to full-fledged citizens where does it end does it green card holders is a pr's you know who knows guys i'm not in politics i never studied policy i'm just saying moving on it or someone said well you know china is a hostile country and using all types of means to undermine the us so why don't y'all live with this enemy status it been brought on to you by behaviors clearly yeah it's kind of like well since we've deemed china the enemy then anything we got to do to the enemy should just go no questions asked like the truth is here guys if you really know about this thing it's a frenemy it's a frenemy situation because both people are making each other rich both people are doing an immense amount of trades it is completely different than an iran russia north korea situation it is completely different but i get it whatever they put it in the same bucket um and i would say that this opinion is probably held to be honest by a lot of older you know i don't want to speculate on how they look older people in america yeah yeah i mean people also uh are not doing any business do not benefit from china do not like chinese things obviously i don't even like chow mein i don't even like chinese women there's another comment that goes most countries on the planet have laws that prevent non-citizens from owning property in their countries you think you can just go and buy some property in china yeah i would say that this is the most valid argument in the sense of obviously china and america two completely different systems one country very much in a way not free america very free however are you basically saying that you're gonna apply chinese rules to chinese people selectively in america theoretically could be unconstitutional no and also i think uh it's kind of funny where this comment oftentimes comes from the same people who hate china who are anti-china but then they're like you know what i'm anti-china but uh there are some laws over there that i'd like to implement over here i kind of like what they do sometimes but i hate them but um actually i probably would adopt some of the things yeah uh they really know what they're doing but i hate them yeah you should see how they treat criminals and drug dealers over there pretty mean i'll say this listen guys america absolutely and texas in particular you know how texas is they're very like you know don't miss what texas man i'm telling you i'll do dog garnet you don't know what i'll do in the lower star state um i'll say this they absolutely have the right to protect themselves and they have the right to pass any laws but i do think they also owe it to everybody else the rest of the country themselves to be very clear about what they are and they're are not doing and right now i see a lot of fear mongering on both sides yeah i mean i and uh i i guess to empathize with texas for a second i will say that they are always constantly dealing with also mexico who is our neighbor as well where a lot of other states we don't have to deal with the border and everything like that so texas does kind of have their own number of kind of unique issues and and topics that they're constantly dealing with but regardless guys uh what about these other comments and people said i agree with them if they haven't lived in america for more than 10 years no companies and no politicians so some people here are trying to litigate they're trying to find the details like i said in the law in the bill a lot of it is going to come down to the details right yeah prove to me that you want to be and live in america before you buy some empty condo in downtown dallas someone said you know i'm always checking people's meters and it's always an empty condo belonging to some guy named jinn kwan kong or something like that from china and they never even visited it well uh so previously you know co-horst uh the senator had said that this won't affect lawful permanent residents well this is what it takes to become a permanent resident in texas it requires one year of proven residency that you have to have lived there for one year and then the application process can take anywhere from six to like 24 months so you're looking at potentially two years before you can buy a property as a pr in texas right um as a chinese so i guess that's just a little bit of information real quick we got to get into some final comments here someone said yeah well if you're gonna ban all the foreigners buying a potentially lucrative real estate whether used for this purpose that purpose are you gonna ban black rock and are you gonna ban the saudis how come nobody ever said anything about the saudis and obviously under the truth is there's some very complex relationships involving oil and obviously black rock is an american company some people argue that america's a corporatocracy yeah and then uh this other comment said well we should confiscate any land or property owned by foreigners in the us no matter what or when it was acquired now here's what's funny david most of the foreign owned land in america is not even owned by china not even close china only owns one percent you know who the biggest foreign landowner in america is canada yeah canada so you well i believe only three percent of america is owned by foreigners in total and of that three percent the largest landholder of that three percent is canada right i heard even italy owns more us land than china does right so you're confiscating also foreign land or land from people uh then you're just going back to like whatever people did in world war two you're kind of are you gonna say that it should be all foreigners because somebody was arguing that would be a lot less discriminatory right if you just said no foreign passport holders or non green card or non prs can buy land but then if you stop all foreigners from buying land are you is that going against the american dream is that what america stands for right right so i don't know well someone said orientals are different man well they like to take over and dominate i wasn't around for the genghis khan days but i'm telling you it probably wasn't good to be us and not only that look at tolyota man everybody's driving to tolyota now nobody wants a forward torus forward fusion man everybody wants the japanese cars man uh anyways guys i mean i think that there are so many comments they were waiting oh there's a couple other there is a last one i got to say this and this is proving my point and this actually leads me into my transition point is that some people were like yeah man see the whites that all the asians voted for they were actually against us this whole time and against you guys so join the NAACP and another person said yeah de santis is just putting on a show for the gullible gop basically there's a lot of people sort of twisting this on both sides to sort of benefit their agenda right um there's a lot of fear mongering china on both sides right but particularly on the right it's more heavy but on the left always of course basically saying that white people or republicans are racist is also a classical argument right so the dems are trying to demonize this and the republicans are trying to make the case and say that this is for national security and it's the right thing to do yeah i would actually say that uh in texas even a lot of democrats support it too though right right i guess uh i guess overall the takeaways guys and it's tough without having read the senate bill and knowing the exact language obviously there's a lot of confusion between who is going to be included in this i get it again chinese companies and government entities are anything tied to the chinese government buying property you should block it that's totally fair yeah especially when it is involving infrastructure military sites totally logical yes yes uh but then how do you determine if an individual who is a chinese national uh and a citizen of china cannot buy property i guess if you just have to make sure that they're a permanent resident i guess there's a sense from americans that are just like listen man if they want to buy land here they just got approved that they actually live here man that's all we're asking right is that unreasonable and to be fair and or canada starting january 1st 2023 of this year they have a three-year ban on all foreign citizens regardless of country of origin buying canadian residential homes because the homes in canada are like soaring way out of control due to you know they had laxer i guess foreign investment on residential property laws and then just like their market went insane another point that i want to bring up guys this is the classic like american military geopolitics national security uh issue budding heads with american capitalism because you know what happened in north dakota so in north dakota a uh big chinese company was buying a corn mill and they were going to rehab this corn mill as in like spruce it up again and get out we're gonna yeah it was like running very old school technology we have all the modern corn technology from china we love corn yeah and then the local north dakota officials were like oh this is great oh yeah i like or no sorry that's not the swedish but they're like the fargo talking people where basically oh yeah i don't you know the chinese are gonna come in and make the corn factory like oh it's great yeah the corn mill is gonna get up and running gonna create some jobs and bring back the economies but then the military blocked this whole project because they were like whoa whoa whoa this is a little bit too close to the air force guys so it's kind of like businesses want to work with china because ultimately businesses make money but then the military and well they want a tango yeah and it takes two to tango and they want to tango they want to dance but then the american military is trying to cock block it and be like guys this is a national security thing so i guess to you guys come in the comments down below i want to know which one do you think is a bigger deal is it more so that we need to just pursue american business and american capitalism as much as possible or do we need to reel it back and say hey man listen we're in a tug of war with china they might be our friend of me but key word enemy and friend of me and then like we got to slow them down right absolutely guys i like i said i think there's a lot of good arguments on both sides when it comes to my opinion on this issue i totally think it is within uh texas state rights to do this if they feel like you know whether it's being fear mongered on the right or fear mongered on the left as long as the bill includes a lot of provisions for people who like are not doing bad things at all to buy land i think that by all means i mean that's texas what about this as a compromise you let them buy land and property but up to a certain point like if they're chinese citizens maybe they can buy up to two three million dollars worth of property i don't know what the limit is maybe one residential home two residential homes right maybe even three right but you don't let them buy 300 yeah that could make logical sense and be more of a compromise rather than demonizing a group right well anyways you guys you let us know in the comments down below those are our thoughts on this uh texas senate bill 147 again i mean we are not political science yeah if you guys know what's really in the bill please feel free to post it in the comments in quotations but other than that obviously there's a lot of confusion about the wording and both sides are trying to use it i just think both sides right now they're always like twisting the truth right and they both want to jiu jitsu something to benefit their other agendas and wrap it all up when you know the issue could just be straight down the middle more scientific who knows man nothing works that way nowadays let us know what you think in the comments section below until next time with the hop-hop 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