Back to episode — Episode 2838 CWSA 05/13/25
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ecause it's just a robot dog. Doesn't really have enough hands for that. I guess we'll have the Optimus for that. All right. Well, the Jake Tapper book is out with co-author Alex Thompson. Now that's the one that promised to be, we imagined would be full of really shocking things about Joe Biden from behind the scenes. And so far the only thing I've heard from the book is that Joe Biden's physica…
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But Trump is very excited about the fact that China has agreed to quote "open itself up to American business." Now what exactly does that mean? Because if you were an American business and you found out that China said all right, in the past we weren't allowing you to even compete in China because we wanted our Chinese businesses to thrive without the competition. But even if you could bring your business into China, wouldn't you still be worried that they would steal your IP and that they would bug all your devices?
You've probably heard that if you're a CEO of a company and you travel to China, you can't bring your regular phone because everything's going to be tapped and you know you're basically going to be surveilled the entire time. So who would actually do that? Like even if you could do business in China and they opened it up to American business, is that real or would there be so many China-specific problems that you'd wish you had never gotten near it?
I still think China is too dangerous for business. It's too risky. And I don't see that changing because it would require a complete mindset change in China where apparently the current mindset—and you know I can't read minds but I'm going to only judge it from actions. If you look at the
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actions of China it's as if there are no ethical or moral limits on anything and that if they can steal from you they do. If they can abuse you, they will. If they can steal your stuff, they will. If they can degrade you in any way for the benefit of the Chinese market, they will. How is that going to change? I don't see that changing, you know, if they don't have the mindset that, oh yeah, come…
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