Chinese Agro Terrorist

[727Sky]

https://youtu.be/xSeA3Auk8LU Chinese Agro Fungus terrorist  https://youtu.be/EaxLVEzWyqI A Chinese PHD student arrested

[UltraBudgie]

Article:

Two Chinese scientists have been arrested for smuggling a toxic fungus that can be used as an “agroterrorism weapon” into the United States.

Yunqing Jian, a 33-year-old scientist at the University of Michigan, and her boyfriend, 34-year-old Zunyong Liu are accused of smuggling a fungus called Fusarium graminearum, which can infect food products like wheat, barley and rice with “head blight”, and subsequently cause vomiting, liver damage and reproductive defects in humans and livestock.

The fungus is classified in scientific literature as a “potential agroterrorism weapon”, the FBI said.

“It is responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year,” the US attorney’s office statement added.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/chinese-scien...46560.html

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[Inspector44]

This is just who they know about. They have been bringing these people in by the truckloads to run these illegal pot farms all over the country.

[UltraBudgie]

This is just who they know about. They have been bringing these people in by the truckloads to run these illegal pot farms all over the country.

yeah quit pot after it became business because if its not the fungus its the antifungus stuff or whatever they spray on it or even being bred for notmellow effects and i have absolutely no evidence of this other than this is the way the world seems to work haha dunno if its china those but prolly theyve got something going on i think there an old opium war grudge there maybe

[MichSwampbuck]

Figures, it happened here in Michigan. There is work to do here, for sure.

[727Sky]

IMO it really is an act of War but is from an individual(s) or is it actually state sponsored  ?

[727Sky]

A little more on the warfare aspect; this time A.I. 

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[putnam6]

On the heels of COVID, highlights either China doesn't give AF or they sponsor this sabotage, either way, biologicals like this need to be strictly controlled or outright eradicated without peer-reviewed proof of its positive value for humanity

[quintessentone]

"The fungus labeled a "potential agroterrorism weapon" in a recent arrest touted by the Trump administration likely originated in North America and is already widely prevalent around the country, a researcher who studied the fungus for the federal government says. 
University of Michigan researcher Yunqing Jian and her boyfriend, Zunyong Liu, were charged with trying to smuggle strains of a fungus called Fusarium graminearum into the United States. Jian worked at the University of Michigan, according to officials, and Liu works at a Chinese university. The two have co-authored research into the fungus."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fungus-agro...esearcher/

They should be allowed to study it to hopefully find ways to combat it, considering these new facts.

[StoutBroux]

Curious why this is such a firestorm now.  The fungus does exist in the USA and throughout the world already.  Not trying to downplay it though.  Were they trying to find ways to advance it or destroy it?  My hunch is to advance it.  But we supply a lot of wheat and other agriculture products to several countries so why so much hate? China has food insecurity issue themselves so it seems a spiteful and potentially self-harming action. 

“It is a globally prevalent pathogen. Arguably, there is nowhere in the world that does not have it,” he said. While the pathogen posed a threat to crops such as wheat, it had been present in fields for a long time and was not highly contagious, he added.
Indeed, the pathogen has been found across the US and has been studied extensively there for decades, with ample literature published.
 
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/...ent-exodus

From what I can tell from my bit of research, the boyfriend , Liu Zunyong, 34, is back in China as of May 2024.  The girlfriend, Jian, has now been charged, arrested and is in custody but my bigger question is, this happened in July 2024 - almost one year ago.  And NOW it's an issue?  It took that long to bring charges?   

After training at the University of Michigan, he returned to China and joined his alma mater in May last year. His profile on Zhejiang University’s website was not accessible on Wednesday.

 If he returned to China in May, why was he flying back to the USA in July?  Why weren't they both added to a no-fly list?  He is still in China apparently.

It's clear this wasn't handled properly from the git go.  

But here's more from the same site:

The latest accusations against Chinese scientists in the United States, alongside other measures, could further impact scientific research collaboration between the two countries.
 
In April, two homes of cybersecurity expert Wang Xiaofeng were raided and he was dismissed from his position as a professor at Indiana University Bloomington.

We are under attack from all sides.  Extra alertness and efforts needs to be enforced to keep danger at bay.