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DOJ charges two Chinese nationals with smuggling 'potential agroterrorism' fungus into US
Just the News ^ | June 3, 2025 | Misty Severi

Posted on 06/04/2025 11:09:18 AM PDT by Twotone

The Justice Department on Tuesday charged two Chinese researchers with attempting to smuggle a fungus dubbed "Fusarium graminearum," into the U.S. which it claimed scientific research "classifies as a potential agroterrorism weapon."

The two researchers, identified as 33-year-old Yunqing Jian and 34-year-old Zunyong Liu, were allegedly receiving funding from the Chinese government for their research, and were allegedly citizens of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

The pair, who were supposedly dating, allegedly lied to U.S. officials about the fungus in Detroit last year, with Liu stating he did not know how the material ended up in his luggage. He later admitted to putting it in his bag and wrapping it carefully to avoid detection because he knew it was restricted, the department said, per ABC News.

“The alleged actions of these Chinese nationals -- including a loyal member of the Chinese Communist Party -- are of the gravest national security concerns," U.S. Attorney Jerome Gorgan said in a statement. "These two aliens have been charged with smuggling a fungus that has been described as a ‘potential agroterrorism weapon’ into in the heartland of America, where they apparently intended to use a University of Michigan laboratory to further their scheme."

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TOPICS: China; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: agroterrorism; ccp; china; doj; getemouttahere; michigan; uofmichigan; yunqingjian; zunyongliu

1 posted on 06/04/2025 11:09:18 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

And how many millions of Chinese are in the country?


2 posted on 06/04/2025 11:13:03 AM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: Twotone

Hang them in the DC mall and let their carcasses rot for a year


3 posted on 06/04/2025 11:19:29 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: Twotone

Should be SHOT


4 posted on 06/04/2025 11:21:45 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Twotone

Inject them with their own bioweapon and drop them off in Beijing.


5 posted on 06/04/2025 11:21:58 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Twotone

And you think these are the only chinks trying this? Really?


6 posted on 06/04/2025 11:23:55 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Twotone

Excerpt:
He later admitted to putting it in his bag and wrapping it carefully to avoid detection because he knew it was restricted, the department said, per ABC

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Why didn’t they just walk it across at eagle pass or tiajuna during buydung/ mayorkis regime?

Oh?

Suppose they did??


7 posted on 06/04/2025 11:34:56 AM PDT by thinden (Buckle Up!)
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To: Twotone

Good. Now use this as the reason to forcefully remove every single Chinese student and review every single Chinese citizen living in America.


8 posted on 06/04/2025 11:39:32 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: Twotone
The pair, who were supposedly dating,

Which US politicians this time?

9 posted on 06/04/2025 11:44:46 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: kvanbrunt2

This is the China Fungus and Wuhan Virus wasn’t enough. Sum ting Wong with the Chinese in America. They need to be showing some significant loyalty to America, or get their asses back home, which is the utopia of the world to hear Biden and Xi tell it.


10 posted on 06/04/2025 11:50:15 AM PDT by healy61
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To: healy61

And University of Michigan should be closed until a clean bill of health and exam of their science “projects” has been completed. That will send a huge message.


11 posted on 06/04/2025 11:52:48 AM PDT by healy61
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To: Twotone
"DOJ charges two Chinese nationals with smuggling 'potential agroterrorism' fungus into US'

Perhaps that was one of the crops they planned for on their Chinese owned US farmland and other colonies.
12 posted on 06/04/2025 12:33:43 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: Twotone

There’s a fungus among us!


13 posted on 06/04/2025 12:50:41 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: Twotone

Stink bugs, chestnut blight, covid...

A pattern emerges.


14 posted on 06/04/2025 1:45:39 PM PDT by BHI2025
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To: Twotone

Imagine all the ones who don’t get caught.


15 posted on 06/04/2025 4:01:29 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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