With the focus on the White House’s tariff talks with China, you might have missed an issue between the two countries that’s playing out in our back yards— U.S. land owned by citizens of our adversaries. The Texas legislature just passed a bill that would prevent Texas land sales to people from certain countries. Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham told me the state took up the issue when a Chinese official purchased property too close to a U.S. military site. “We realized that that was really a mechanism for destabilizing our grid, causing problems for our bases,” Buckingham told me. Think this concern is bipartisan? Not necessarily. A couple states away in Arizona, the Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs just rejected a similar bill. While we watch President Trump deal with Xi Jinping, a reminder that issues involving China rest in the states as well.