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Mike Rogers: “I think the Chinese have a saying, why invent it when you can steal it? So that's what they do.”

On the recordJuly 6, 2011
I think the Chinese have a saying, why invent it when you can steal it? So that's what they do.
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Mike Rogers
Republican · Alabama

Editor's note · Context

Rogers criticizes China's theft of intellectual property.

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