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O’Leary on Trump tariffs: US must train China ‘like a puppy
The Hill ^ | 04/11/2025 | Filip Timotija

Posted on 04/11/2025 4:21:38 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

“Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary argued during a recent interview that President Trump’s tariffs against China are necessary because the U.S. has to train Beijing “like a puppy” to not “steal” intellectual property.

“It’s not just trade tariffs. It’s you cheating and stealing. We’re tired of it, and you’ve got to stop. They actually don’t care that they steal IP [intellectual property] — they don’t. They think it’s OK,” O’Leary said during a Friday morning appearance on CNN.

“It’s almost … the analogy is like a puppy when you’re training it. You stick the nose in the poo poo, and you roll up a newspaper and you smack it on their rear end,” the Canadian businessman told host Jim Sciutto. “That’s what we got to do here in China. I hate to use that analogy, but that’s where we’re at after 20 years. They have not understood how this works.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; oleary; puppy; tariffs; train; trump; us
No table food for China?
1 posted on 04/11/2025 4:21:38 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump has to stop arresting sub-two-bit hispanics and focus on geo tracking/rounding up EVERY chinese national within 10 miles of EVERY substation and water supply in the country before this gets UGLY.


2 posted on 04/11/2025 4:27:50 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

China created a bioweapon that killed MILLIONS and they never had to apologize..that is how much China owns the world..imagine ANY other country, PURPOSELY infecting millions upon millions of people and in return throwing some cheap ass masks at your face and saying “Happy now” I want China choked..I dont care how long it takes I want them destroyed


3 posted on 04/11/2025 4:33:03 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I love this guy!


4 posted on 04/11/2025 4:38:37 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oof, he better not be planning to go to China for a while for comparing them to dogs. That’s really going to piss them off. Oh well. They used to call us “Imperialist lackeys and their running dogs”, a major insult to them.


5 posted on 04/11/2025 4:40:29 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: mikey_hates_everything

I’m certain the insult was intended; and, well-deserved.

To Hell with the godless CCP!!!


6 posted on 04/11/2025 4:48:00 PM PDT by dadgum (Fight to WIN or do not fight at all)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Correct.


7 posted on 04/11/2025 4:57:50 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: Captainpaintball

Why should we stop one worthwhile activity to pursue another?

We can walk and chew gum together, IMO.


8 posted on 04/11/2025 5:03:13 PM PDT by MortMan (Charter member of AAAAA - American Association Against Alliteration Abuse)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In the 2000’s, I worked for many inventors who shared the same pattern. Invent, trademark, prototype, test, send to China to manufacture, wait for China to fulfill, China fulfills incorrectly, correct China for product tweaks, learn that China has been selling your product to other US distributors, inventor gets his cheap ass product full of defects, inventor shuts down, China controls shmuck’s invention.


9 posted on 04/11/2025 5:11:56 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Communists don’t respect intellectual property?

I’m shocked!


10 posted on 04/11/2025 6:14:20 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Products possibly based on coerced or stolen IP by China should not be allowed to be imported into the USA.


11 posted on 04/11/2025 6:17:50 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Captainpaintball

If I was on the Central Committee, I would not have voted for Xi.

Xi combatively fell into Trump’s tariff spiral while the Mexicans have simply gone along with Trump so they would not get trapped in a tariff spiral.


12 posted on 04/11/2025 6:21:07 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Captainpaintball

There’s lots of Chinese in the USA.

Most Chinese know anger is a bad thing.


13 posted on 04/11/2025 6:23:13 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Chinese, like Russians, Iranians and Trump, know tough talk is cheap.

It is a probably a matter of saving face at this point.

I suspect Trump should offer to have both countries set their tariffs at his retaliatory level.


14 posted on 04/11/2025 6:27:44 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

his retaliatory table level


15 posted on 04/11/2025 6:28:22 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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