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ЁЯЪи CCP Funded Chinese Nationals Busted Smuggling тАШCrop-Destroying Super FungusтАЩ into U.S. in a Plot to Destroy our Food Supply
ЁЯЪи CCP Funded Chinese Nationals Busted Smuggling тАШCrop-Destroying Super FungusтАЩ into U.S. in a Plot to Destroy our Food Supply
тАв The smuggling attempt occurred in July 2024, but the case was JUST publicly disclosed today.
тАв The two Chinese nationals, Yunqing Jian (33) and Zunyong Liu (34), were charged by the DOJ for attempting to smuggle тАЬFusarium graminearumтАЭ, an extremely dangerous fungus, through Detroit Metropolitan Airport, hidden in plastic baggies inside LiuтАЩs backpack.
тАв Yunqing Jian, one of the two Chinese nationals charged in this case, worked at the University of Michigan, where she was a postdoctoral fellow at the universityтАЩs Molecular Plant-Microbe Laboratory.
тАФтАФ Her boyfriend, Zunyong Liu, was planning to use its laboratory facilities for research on the smuggled тАЬFusarium graminearumтАЭ fungus, and potentially releasing it into the United States.
тАФтАФ Liu conducts research on the SAME pathogen at a university in China.
тАв Liu initially LIED but later admitted to the smuggling; JianтАЩs electronics revealed they had direct financial funding ties to the Chinese Communist Party
тАв Both came into the US under the Biden Administration and now face charges of conspiracy, smuggling goods, making false statements, and visa fraud.
тАв Jian was arrested and appeared in federal court in Detroit on June 3, 2025; Liu was denied entry to the U.S. and remains AT LARGE, likely fleeing to China.
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