04-28-2020, 10:55 PM
Cotton Warns Against China Trying to Steal
Coronavirus Vaccine from U.S., Urges ‘Hard Look’ at Visas
Granted to Chinese Nationals
From Breitbart
JEFF POOR
26 Apr 2020
Sunday, during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s
“Sunday Morning Futures,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said,
based on the past, the Chinese government was likely
still attempting to steal intellectual property from the
United States, including a coronavirus vaccine.
“[T]he Chinese Communist Party has been stealing
America’s intellectual property for decades, and they
aren’t going to magically stop in the middle of a pandemic,”
he said. “In almost every state in the union, there are
active cases against Chinese nationals. In Arkansas, for
instance, they are accused of having stolen proprietary
genomes of our farmers in East Arkansas. But in the middle
of a pandemic, what’s the most valuable intellectual
property in the world? It’s the research that our great
laboratories and life science companies are doing on
prophylactic drugs, therapeutic drugs, and ultimately a
vaccine. So I have little doubt that the Chinese intelligence
services are actively trying to steal America’s intellectual
property as it relates to the virus that they unleashed on
the world, because, of course, they want to be the country
that claims credit for finding those drugs or finding a vaccine,
and then use it as leverage against the rest of the world.”
Cotton told FNC’s Maria Bartiromo a “very hard look”
should be taken at Chinese Nationals coming to the
United States to study in specific fields.
“[I]t’s a scandal to me that we have trained so many of
the Chinese Communist Party’s brightest minds to go back
to China to compete for our jobs, to take our business,
and ultimately to steal our property and design weapons
and other devices that can be used against the American
people. So, I think we need to take a very hard look at the
visas that we give the Chinese nationals to come to the
United States to study, especially at the post-graduate level
in advanced scientific and technological fields. If Chinese
students want to come here and study Shakespeare and the
Federalist Papers, that’s what they need to learn from America.
They don’t need to learn quantum computing and
artificial intelligence from America.”
Coronavirus Vaccine from U.S., Urges ‘Hard Look’ at Visas
Granted to Chinese Nationals
From Breitbart
JEFF POOR
26 Apr 2020
Sunday, during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s
“Sunday Morning Futures,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said,
based on the past, the Chinese government was likely
still attempting to steal intellectual property from the
United States, including a coronavirus vaccine.
“[T]he Chinese Communist Party has been stealing
America’s intellectual property for decades, and they
aren’t going to magically stop in the middle of a pandemic,”
he said. “In almost every state in the union, there are
active cases against Chinese nationals. In Arkansas, for
instance, they are accused of having stolen proprietary
genomes of our farmers in East Arkansas. But in the middle
of a pandemic, what’s the most valuable intellectual
property in the world? It’s the research that our great
laboratories and life science companies are doing on
prophylactic drugs, therapeutic drugs, and ultimately a
vaccine. So I have little doubt that the Chinese intelligence
services are actively trying to steal America’s intellectual
property as it relates to the virus that they unleashed on
the world, because, of course, they want to be the country
that claims credit for finding those drugs or finding a vaccine,
and then use it as leverage against the rest of the world.”
Cotton told FNC’s Maria Bartiromo a “very hard look”
should be taken at Chinese Nationals coming to the
United States to study in specific fields.
“[I]t’s a scandal to me that we have trained so many of
the Chinese Communist Party’s brightest minds to go back
to China to compete for our jobs, to take our business,
and ultimately to steal our property and design weapons
and other devices that can be used against the American
people. So, I think we need to take a very hard look at the
visas that we give the Chinese nationals to come to the
United States to study, especially at the post-graduate level
in advanced scientific and technological fields. If Chinese
students want to come here and study Shakespeare and the
Federalist Papers, that’s what they need to learn from America.
They don’t need to learn quantum computing and
artificial intelligence from America.”