FBI Director Kash Patel and some Republican lawmakers are sounding the alarm about threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), after two Chinese nationals were charged with smuggling a pathogen into the United States.
“This case is a sobering reminder that the CCP is working around the clock to deploy operatives and researchers to infiltrate American institutions and target our food supply, which would have grave consequences … putting American lives and our economy at serious risk,” Patel wrote on social media platform X on June 3.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced charges against Jian Yunqing, 33, and Liu Zunyong, 34, on June 3. According to a criminal complaint, Liu, a researcher currently in China, applied for a B-2 visa in March 2024 and brought the pathogen, a fungus known as Fusarium graminearum, into the United States while visiting Jian, his girlfriend, in July 2024….