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Elissa Slotkin: “The Chinese literally steal our intellectual property, make…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin | #MPC26

Published | Video Starts at 01:47

He's a former car dealer, a Republican on the other side of the aisle, and we hammered out legislation that encompasses this exact ban because he's worried about Chinese vehicles coming in the United States. And I don't think people totally get that. The Chinese literally steal our intellectual property, make cars that look like ours, flood the market with them, subsidize them, pay money from the Chinese Communist Party to make them super cheap so that they can purposely undercut American industry. That is their M.O. and I'm just not going to let. We saw them do it on drones. Used to be we had American drone companies. It was very hard. (01:47–02:02)

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Asserts that China steals U.S. intellectual property and subsidizes vehicles to undercut American industry.

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