- In light of the arrests of two Chinese nationals who are accused of smuggling a crop-killing fungus across the border, there concern that agroterrorism from foreign adversaries could cause a “severe disruption” to the United States.
- Agroterrorism is any attempt to bring items into the United States intentionally that would attack the plants that are key to our agricultural survival as a nation.
- Chinese nationals Yunqing Jian, 33, and her boyfriend Zunyong Liu, 34, were arrested earlier this month by the FBI for allegedly smuggling Fusarium graminearum into the U.S. and studying it in labs over a two-year period. Read More
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