© AP Photo/Carolyn KasterSen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.
During an interview on Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures program, Cotton asserted that China is trying to "actively trying steal" a coronavirus vaccine from the U.S.
"The Chinese Communist Party has been stealing America's intellectual property for decades and they're not going to magically stop in the middle of a pandemic," Cotton opined. "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 they unleashed on the world," he continued. "Because of course they want to be the country that claims credit for finding those drugs of finding a vaccine and then use it as leverage against the rest of the world."
Cotton went on to attack Chinese students who are studying abroad in the U.S.
"It's a scandal to me that we have trained so many of 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," the senator said.
"I think we need to take a very hard look at the visas we give Chinese nationals to come to the U.S. to study," he added. "Especially at the post-graduate level in advanced scientific and technological fields."
According to Cotton, Chinese students should be studying "Shakespeare and the Federalist Papers."
"That's what they need to learn from America," he insisted. "They don't need to learn quantum computing and artifical intelligence from America."
Reader Comments
the headline is mis-leading.. and was NOT what he said. headline.
Meathead Sen. Tom Cotton wants to ban advanced science degrees for Chinese students so they can't 'steal' COVID-19 vaccine
his comment.
"Because of course they want to be the country that claims credit for finding those drugs of finding a vaccine and then use it as leverage against the rest of the world."
other than that one statement... he made no other mention of a vaccine.
methinks your own intelligence is getting the better of you. Politics and Religion define a person. I was 47 before I ever challenged myself to at least come to a specious conclusion as to these twin subjects.
I am a Deist and want to live in a Republic based on natural law and individual rights.
can you not figure out how to post an avatar? should I change my own?
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That's because there are far too few able to teach it here any more.
But, then again, what 'intelligence' might be found here these days is mostly 'artificial'.
*I find self hoping that that typo was in this fools original 'text' or whatever.
or, do you not recognize any limits upon your imagination?
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if I put a bulb in my bezel... will that make me a shining light?
LOL...a female with a mouth like mine would be a scary prospect indeed...or one of my ex wives...yes, I have a pretty fertile imagination, its a gift...mostly...Anarchist...not yet, just a guy who unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond my control, had the veil torn away and got to see the 'man behind the curtain'...something I would not wish on anyone, because everything changes after that...
change is the only constant in life my friend.
The elements of hydrogen and oxygen have internal rules which causes them to join cooperatively and form water, a higher, more powerful and useful substance. It is the same for humans when we cooperate together there is the possibility of creating something much greater. To resist this cooperation, is to deny the inherent possibility of higher and more powerful greatness.
you are either stupid or just playing stupid Love.
yes, water is the fuel of the future.
If you're saying that her analogy of how those elements combine to how humans do, well folks wiser than me have said "as above, so below."
It certainly wasn't and isn't stupid.
R.C.