CCP loyalist should be sent to Gitmo after arrest for alleged pathogen smuggling, says China expert

Gatestone Institute elder chap Gordon Chang is informing of a lurking agroterrorism threat arsenic Chinese nationals basal accused of smuggling a unsafe crop-killing fungus into the U.S.

"This has been going connected for astatine slightest a fractional decade, due to the fact that successful 2020, Americans successful each 50 states received from China unsolicited seeds, and that's an effort to works these invasive species," Chang said Thursday.

"This has to stop."

Chang argued that nary bail should beryllium offered to 33-year-old Communist Party loyalist and University of Michigan post-doctoral probe chap Yunqing Jian, 1 of the suspects who allegedly smuggled the pathogen.

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The FBI alleges that Jian and her 34-year-old boyfriend, Zunyong Liu, plotted the pathogen's transport successful what galore fishy was an effort to cripple the American nutrient supply.

Baggies seized by Border Patrol containing the unsafe fungus fusarium graminearum. (FBI)

"She should beryllium sent to Guantanamo," Chang insisted. 

"But the constituent present is that we shouldn't beryllium talking to a authorities that is actively taking our state down. This is not conscionable the fungus, this is fentanyl, this is COVID, this is each the remainder of it." 

According to an apprehension affidavit, Jian archetypal brought Fusarium graminearum, described arsenic a "potential agroterrorism weapon" successful technological literature, to the U.S. successful August 2022. 

A transcribed WeChat speech betwixt Jian and Liu shows Liu instructing Jian connected however to smuggle the fungus, according to the affidavit.

According to the Department of Justice, fusarium graminearum creates "head blight," a illness of wheat, barley, maize and rice, and "is liable for billions of dollars successful economical losses worldwide each year."

FBI Director Kash Patel reacted to 2 Chinese nationals allegedly smuggling a imaginable agroterrorism limb into the United States to survey astatine the University of Michigan. (Getty Images/ IMAGN)

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The pathogen is besides toxic to humans.

Chang accused U.S. universities of "making a batch of wealth from China" done students, contributions and different methods, arsenic helium explained the rationale for a suspected force being connected American soil.

"That's wherefore we person these precise disturbing ties betwixt American institutions of higher learning and China, and we request to interruption that, due to the fact that evidently the dangers are there, arsenic we spot with this fungus case."

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The University of Michigan released a connection regarding the incidental connected Wednesday. 

"As 1 of the world’s starring nationalist probe institutions, the University of Michigan is dedicated to advancing knowledge, solving challenging problems and improving astir each facet of the quality experience. Our probe endeavor crossed each 3 campuses is agreed successful this committedness to serving the radical of Michigan and the world," the schoolhouse said. 

"We powerfully condemn immoderate actions that question to origin harm, endanger national security oregon undermine the university’s captious nationalist mission. It is important to enactment that the assemblage has received nary backing from the Chinese authorities successful narration to probe conducted by the accused individuals. We person and volition proceed to cooperate with federal instrumentality enforcement successful its ongoing probe and prosecution."

Fox News' Peter D'Abrosca contributed to this report.