The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office says no laws were broken when state and local officials worked with China-based Nongfu Spring ahead of the company’s controversial $67 million purchase of a Nashua property.

But Gov. Kelly Ayotte says she’s deeply concerned about a company tied to China’s communist regime making a major infrastructure investment in the Granite State.

“Foreign adversaries like China should not be doing business in New Hampshire, and I am taking action today to ensure it,” Ayotte said in a statement released minutes after the report went public. “In addition to a new law banning these types of land purchases, I will issue executive orders to ensure the Chinese Communist Party and other hostile groups are not doing business with our state government.”

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