DeSantis Sounds Alarm on Chinese Firm's Purchase of 1,400 Acres of Florida Land for 'Primate Research'

Florida governor Ron DeSantis has sounded the alarm after an American subsidiary of Chinese firm JOINN Laboratories purchased 1,400 acres of land in the Sunshine State.

According to Levy County, JOINN Laboratories, CA Inc. purchased the land from L&T Cattle & Timber, LLC in the summer and had expressed a desire to construct a "primate quarantine facility and/or primate research laboratory."

The land is currently zoned as "Forestry/Rural Residential," which means it would have to be rezoned if the proposed facility were to be built. The county revealed, however, that it had not yet received an application from JOINN Laboratories to initiate the process.