The Atlanta-based 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Nov. 4 issued an enormously important ruling upholding a new Florida law that restricts real estate and land purchases by buyers from China. The court acknowledged the vast national security implications inherent to the issue, but not all Americans are happy with the decision.
“National, individual, land, and food security concerns motivated (the law’s) enactment,” Circuit Judge Robert Luck wrote for the court majority in the 2-1 ruling that is expected to pave the way for numerous other states to pass similar laws. Liberty Nation News has documented how states across the nation are fighting back against Chinese land grabs that target areas close to sensitive US military installations and vital agricultural concerns in particular.
“As recently as three or four years ago, news of a new $95 million venture would have been greeted with great enthusiasm in much of the [US], including from business-minded Republicans,” LNN noted in May 2024. “All that has changed now, with the realization that China’s status as the number one geopolitical opponent of the United States can no longer be safely ignored.”
Well, not entirely. There are still some out there who, seemingly blinded by self-interest, continue to actively encourage China land purchases within the nation’s interior.
‘Forge Relationships That Can Be Measured in Sales’
“China and Singapore rank No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, for most global web searches for South Florida real estate in September 2025, according to a new report by the Miami Association of Realtors,” the group, which refers to itself as MIAMI, gushed in an Oct. 14 press release.
“Asia continues to be an emerging market for South Florida real estate with our clean air, ideal weather and growth as a FinTech destination being major attractions,” association Board Chairman Eddie Blanco was quoted as saying of the report. “The new $1 million Gold Card that potentially could grant American residency in record time plus a temporary injunction on SB 264 are two factors for the increase in searches from Asia.”
SB 264 is the Florida law banning sales to foreigners from China.
The reasons for the association’s readily apparent distaste for the law are not difficult to uncover. MIAMI, which has billed itself as “the largest local real estate association in the US,” spent years aggressively drumming up Chinese real estate purchases in the Sunshine State. “The Miami Association of Realtors is coming together with OPP [Overseas Property Professional] Group to create a Mission to China this October,” a 2014 release from the group states.
“Working with such an incredibly powerful and forward thinking organization with massive membership (32,000) in an area of the USA that is already very attractive to the Chinese is an honor and an exciting challenge. The potential for a further drastic uplift in real estate buyers from China is there for all to see and it is our job to help MIAMI members forge relationships that count and that can be measured in sales,” OPP Group Owner Xavier Wiggins exclaimed.
“Miami is the top choice for foreign buyers in the US,” MIAMI CEO Teresa King Kinney observed. “At MIAMI, we are committed to positioning the Miami real estate market at the forefront of international expansion, and we are excited about partnering with OPPLive to further our members’ exposure in Asia, which is rapidly emerging as a strong market for Miami and South Florida.”
The association continued to enthusiastically court Chinese cash over the proceeding years.
Selling Point: Miami Offers China ‘Proximity to Latin America’
“Thanks to the Miami Association of Realtors partnering with foreign listing portal Juwai, Chinese buyers will now have easy access to residential and commercial listings in the Magic City,” South Florida Agent magazine reported in 2016. “Miami is the city of the future,” Kinney said at the time. “With its proximity to Latin America, diversified economy and newly-improved port, airport and highways, Greater Miami is in position to attract major investment from China and other international countries.”
Astonishingly, Kinney was openly acknowledging the vital strategic advantages presented to China by having Miami serve as a gateway to its determined efforts to expand into Latin America. These efforts have been identified as posing a grave threat to US national security interests in the Western Hemisphere.
South Florida Agent magazine’s positive 2016 portrayal of a dismal development makes for startling reading in 2025:
“From 2010 to 2014, the Asian-born population in Miami-Dade County increased 10.5 percent, accounting for 2.8 percent of the general population, according to Census numbers. Of that community, one in five identified as Chinese.
“In specific regards to real estate, the presence of Chinese buyers in Florida has been steadily growing since 2008. According to the state’s 2015 international homebuyer profile, the share of Chinese homebuyers went from nonexistent to 4 percent of the overall market in that seven-year period; and 42 percent of those buyers purchased in Greater Miami.”
There are numerous ways Chinese nationals embedded in Southeast Florida can help support the Beijing regime’s hostile activities against the United States. As Liberty Nation News reported in September, Chinese illegal aliens are using the Bahamas as a jumping-off point on the way to America. It’s just a skip and a hop from that island nation to the Sunshine State. From there, the road into the American interior is wide open.
Kinney boasted of her association’s Chinese canoodling to regime-controlled media outlet China Daily in October 2016.
“Kinney has made four trips to China. In June, she presented Miami real estate projects to buyers in Chengdu, Xi’an, Changzhou and Shanghai,” the propaganda medium reported. “They’re very, very positive about Miami, and every time we refer to ‘Miami,’ it’s like ‘Oh, I want to go to Miami’ and smiling. I guess it’s the sunshine effect of Miami,” Kinney told China Daily.
“I still believe it’s just a fraction of what it will be,” she told the communist news organ of the potential for increased Chinese real estate purchases in Florida’s largest city.
If you want to know how the Chinese domestic threat has grown into the menace it has become today, the narrow financial perspectives of a trade industry group of South Florida realtors offer a telling and sadly not uncommon primer.
