And have you given any thought to the leakage of our investments and the breakthroughs that are made, the intellectual property leakage to adversary countries and parties and how we might continue to be vigilant against that?
How could it be more clear than this week when DeepSeek, a Chinese AI, says they were able to create things dirt cheap? How? By leveraging what they've taken from us, stolen from us, or leveraged from us. It's outrageous and it needs to be addressed. What this showed is that our export controls, not backed by tariffs,
are like a whack-a-mole model where they get prevented over here and China figures out a way around it over there. We've got to find a way to back our export controls with tariff model so that we tell China
You think we are your most important trading partner? When we say no, the answer is no. It's a respect thing. They've disrespected us. They've figured out their ways around it. I do not believe that deep seek was done all above board. That's nonsense.
Okay, they stole things, they broke in, they've taken our IP, it's got to end. And I'm going to be rigorous in our pursuit of restrictions and enforcing those restrictions to keep us in the lead because we must stay in the lead.
I think the Chinese use our patent office against us. They use our laws. They have huge applications. And those applications are growing like fire. They're trademarks. You know, what they would do is they would say Senator Bud and then they'd say S Bud and S Bud S. You know what I mean? They just go right around your trademark and abuse it. So I think we need to stop that. We need to address it. We need to stop it. We need to end it.
And we need to have countries understand if you do not respect our company's IP there, you should not respect the same treatment here. Reciprocity is a word that really is effective. We are treated horribly. We want that to change. Or you should expect the same treatment here.