Indiana is banning localities and municipalities from entering into cooperative agreements with institutions and governments based in “foreign adversary” countries, including China, following a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation.
State lawmakers have passed and enacted House Bill 1120, a bill that includes a provision prohibiting any county, city, town or township in the state from entering into cooperative agreements with any “city, town, province, county, school, college or university located in a foreign adversary,” including China, according to its text and the Indiana Capital Chronicle. The DCNF has previously investigated a nonprofit tied to Chinese influence operations and involved in “sister city” agreements in Indiana.
