Chinese Nationals have smuggled a fungus into the U.S. that attacks U.S. crops and sickens consumers. Another Covid like attack?

What’s the real source of the bird flu where did it come from I always wondered if it was from China.

What can weather balloons do that satellites can't

Second time this kinda thing happened and both were related to U of Michigan.

Sounds like internet knowledge. Like Jack Nicholson said in The Shining..."if they said it on TV it must be true".

if you believe that this type of economic warfare is beneath or out of bounds for CCP, then you are woefully foolish.

And if the DOJ tries to deport them, some lower court judge will stop them from doing so.

Already proven how they mailed all kinds of invasive weed seeds last few years as well.

U probably believe the most technically advanced military in the world can shoot down a weather balloon over open waters and can't recover it too

Sounds like an act of war?? Like Covid. Threatening and killing American people

From the BBC

Chinese Nationals Accused of SmugglingDangerous Biological Pathogen into US

From the DOJ:

Chinese Nationals Charged with Conspricacy and Smuggling

Chinese Nationals Charged with Conspiracy and Smuggling a Dangerous Biological Pathogen into the U.S. for their Work at a University of Michigan Laboratory

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

DETROIT – Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, citizens of the People’s Republic of China, were charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the United States, false statements, and visa fraud, announced United States Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr.

Gorgon was joined in the announcement by Special Agent in Charge Cheyvoryea Gibson, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Detroit Division and Marty C. Raybon, Director of Field Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The FBI arrested Jian in connection with allegations related to Jian’s and Liu’s smuggling into America a fungus called Fusarium graminearum, which scientific literature classifies as a potential agroterrorism weapon. This noxious fungus causes “head blight,” a disease of wheat, barley, maize, and rice, and is responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year. Fusarium graminearum’s toxins cause vomiting, liver damage, and reproductive defects in humans and livestock.

According to the complaint, Jian received Chinese government funding for her work on this pathogen in China. The complaint also alleges that Jian’s electronics contain information describing her membership in and loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party. It is further alleged that Jian’s boyfriend, Liu, works at a Chinese university where he conducts research on the same pathogen and that he first lied but then admitted to smuggling Fusarium graminearum into America—through the Detroit Metropolitan Airport—so that he could conduct research on it at the laboratory at the University of Michigan where his girlfriend, Jian, worked.

United States Attorney Gorgon stated: “The alleged actions of these Chinese nationals—including a loyal member of the Chinese Communist Party—are of the gravest national security concerns. These two aliens have been charged with smuggling a fungus that has been described as a ‘potential agroterrorism weapon’ into the heartland of America, where they apparently intended to use a University of Michigan laboratory to further their scheme.”

“The federal charges announced today against Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu, both residents of the People’s Republic of China, signify a crucial advancement in our efforts to safeguard our communities and uphold national security,” said Cheyvoryea Gibson, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Detroit Field Office. “These individuals exploited their access to laboratory facilities at a local university to engage in the smuggling of biological pathogens, an act that posed an imminent threat to public safety. Thanks to the exceptional investigative efforts of the FBI Detroit Counterintelligence Task Force, in close cooperation with U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Field Operations these dangerous activities have been effectively halted. The FBI remains resolutely committed to collaborating with our law enforcement partners to protect the residents of Michigan and defend the United States against such grave threats.”

U.S. Custom and Border Protection, Director of Field Operations Marty C. Raybon stated, “Today’s criminal charges levied upon Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu are indicative of CBP’s critical role in protecting the American people from biological threats that could devastate our agricultural economy and cause harm to humans; especially when it involves a researcher from a major university attempting to clandestinely bring potentially harmful biological materials into the United States. This was a complex investigation involving CBP offices from across the country, alongside our federal partners. I’m grateful for their tireless efforts, ensuring our borders remain secure from all types of threats while safeguarding America’s national security interests.”

Jian will be appearing this afternoon in federal court in Detroit for her initial appearance on the complaint.

A complaint is only a charge and is not evidence of guilt. Trial cannot be held on felony charges in a complaint. When the investigation is completed, a determination will be made whether to seek a felony indictment.

The FBI and CBP are investigating this case.
Updated June 4, 2025

None of the articles mention China releasing the fungus as mentioned in the thread title. Fusarium graminearum is already common in the upper Midwest.

Keith

BP, I’m sure it is all fake news. Just like coronavirus, runaway weather balloons, Taiwanese threats……. Wow

From the discussion I listened to about it today, there was no release. They boyfriend, Zunyong Liu, smuggled the Fusarium graminearum in so his girlfriend, Yunqing Jian, who works or studies at the University of Michigan Laboratory, could advance her studies on the stuff.

Both are loyal communists.

Some more details:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/suspecte...killer-agent-into-us-boots-officials-say

So far, that's how I'm seeing it. Is it just me or is it when people get caught we never hear about them anymore?

About five years ago, I ordered some tetra giant snap dragon seeds online. The seeds arrived, I planted about a third of them. They came up, not as snap dragons, but as some kinda fine bladed fern that I’ve never seen before. They started to spread in the flower bed…..took me about three years to eradicate them. They were shipped from China.

Don't forget fentanyl, the CCP has facilitated that drug of death to our shores for a good while now.

MacArthur was right, just like Patton.