Carly Fiorina: Chinese Aren’t Imaginative So They Steal American Ideas

Carly Fiorina speaks at the Republican Leadership Summit Saturday, April 18, 2015, in Nashua, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said earlier this year that the Chinese aren’t “terribly imaginative” and must resort to stealing the intellectual property of Americans.

Fiorina’s comments were made on Jan. 24 during an interview about the Common Core with Iowa political blog, Caffeinated Thoughts, video of which was surfaced by BuzzFeed News on Tuesday.

“I also think the argument for Common Core is frequently, ‘Oh, we have to compete with the Chinese,’” Fiorina told the blog.

Fiorina cited her overseas business experience in China.

“I’ve been doing business in China for decades, and I will tell you that yeah, the Chinese can take a test, but what they can’t do is innovate,” Fiorina said. “They’re not terribly imaginative. They’re not entrepreneurial, they don’t innovate, that’s why they’re stealing our intellectual property.”

Watch the video below, from Caffeinated Thoughts:

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  1. So Iranians are liars.
    Chinese are dumb.
    Mexicans are lazy stealers.
    Blacks are takers and thugs.
    Women are slutty.

    The republican platform ladies and gentlemen.

  2. " I would rather be sent to Iraq than to work again on a Carly Fiorina election campaign".

  3. There goes the Chinese-American vote…

  4. They tried to steal the idea of buying Compaq!

    But I got there first!

    Or sure we had to fire 30,000 people but it made me $27 million!

  5. Is “Repulsive” a synonym for “Republican”?

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