Chinese bioterror suspects' arrests signal communist country plotting 'something worse' than COVID: expert

After the signifier of caller covert communist Chinese infiltrations of the U.S. continued with the apprehension of 2 suspected "bioterrorists" successful Michigan this week, 1 adept said it's clip to sever relations with China completely.

"The lone mode to halt this is to sever relations with China," lawyer and Chinese Communist Party adept Gordon Chang told Fox News Digital. "And I cognize radical deliberation that's drastic, but we are being overwhelmed, and we are going to get hit. And we are going to get deed truly hard. Not conscionable with COVID, not conscionable with fentanyl, but possibly with thing worse."

Chang was responding to caller quality of Chinese nationals Yunqing Jian, 33, and her fellow Zunyong Liu, 34, who, implicit a two-year period, were allegedly smuggling Fusarium graminearum into the U.S. and studying it successful labs. Jian was a post-doctoral probe chap astatine the University of Michigan, whose probe was funded successful portion by the People's Republic of China.

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

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Fusarium graminearum is simply a toxic fungus that causes a crop-killing "head blight," a illness of wheat, barley, maize and atom that "is liable for billions of dollars successful economical losses worldwide each year," according to the Department of Justice.

It is besides toxic to humans, and tin origin vomiting, liver harm and "reproductive defects successful humans and livestock."

"This mates should beryllium sent to Guantánamo," Chang said. "This Chinese authorities has declared a ‘People’s War' connected us."

A "People's War" is simply a subject strategy developed by brutal erstwhile Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong, who died successful 1976, known for sidesplitting tens of millions of Chinese radical via starvation and governmental persecution.

Such a warfare calls for a protracted subject and governmental onslaught meant to exhaust the enemy.

A ample statue of Mao Zedong, erected during the tallness of the Cultural Revolution successful 1969, waves from Zhongshan Square successful Shenyang, China, successful beforehand of a billboard for a slope connected May 17, 2002. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)

Jian and Liu were arrested earlier this week and charged with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the U.S., mendacious statements and visa fraud.

"We're Americans, truthful we deliberation we're entitled to disregard the propaganda of hostile regimes," Chang said. "But for a communist party, [a People's War] has large resonance, and what they're doing with their strident anti-Americanism is creating a justification to onslaught our country."

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"This means, for example, that this mates should beryllium sent to Guantánamo," helium said. "This was an onslaught connected the United States astatine a clip erstwhile China thought it was astatine warfare with us."

Since the 2019 People's War decree referenced by Chang, a laundry database of Chinese and Chinese-aligned infiltrators person been caught red-handed successful the U.S., particularly astatine American universities.

Here's a look backmost astatine immoderate of those instances:

Chinese nationals breach Key West subject base

In 2020, 2 Chinese nationals who were postgraduate students astatine the University of Michigan pleaded blameworthy to charges stemming from a breach astatine a Naval aerial presumption successful Key West, Florida, wherever they were caught illegally entering and photographing defence infrastructure.

Harvard prof recovered guilty

Charles Lieber is not a Chinese national, but was convicted successful 2021 of making mendacious statements to authorities and failing to study income from his enactment with China's Wuhan University of Technology. He besides had a declaration with China's Thousand Talents Program, which "incentivize [their] members to bargain overseas technologies needed to beforehand China’s national, military, and economical goals," according to the FBI.

He was sentenced to clip served, which was 2 days successful prison, and 2 years of supervised merchandise with six months of location confinement. He besides paid assorted fines and restitution of much than $88,000.

The Guard of Honor of the Chinese People's Liberation Army performs a flag-raising ceremonial astatine Bayi Square successful Nanchang, Jiangxi Province of China, to observe the 97th day connected China's Army Day connected Aug. 1, 2024. (Ma Yue/VCG via Getty Images)

Espionage effort by erstwhile exertion student

In 2022, Ji Chaoqun, a Chinese nationalist who had been a pupil astatine the Illinois Institute of Technology, was convicted aft attempting to perpetrate espionage and theft of commercialized secrets.

Chaoqun gathered accusation from American defence contractors and engineers arsenic portion of a crippled by high-level Chinese quality officials to glean accusation astir U.S. exertion advancements.

He was sentenced to 8 years successful prison.

Camp Grayling incident

In 2024, the FBI filed charges against 5 Chinese nationals, each students astatine the University of Michigan, aft they were caught allegedly photographing a associated American-Taiwanese grooming workout astatine Camp Grayling, a National Guard grooming installation successful Michigan.

Their studies were portion of a associated programme with Shanghai-based Jiao Tong University.

University of Minnesota drone spying

Late past year, a University of Minnesota pupil and Chinese nationalist named Fengyun Shi was convicted successful national tribunal for illegally taking photos of Norfolk, Virginia, naval bases utilizing a drone.

He was sentenced to six months successful jailhouse and past deported successful May of this year.

Fengyun Shi is deported by ICE. (ICE)

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"We tin suffer our country, adjacent though we're the acold stronger nation, due to the fact that we are not defending ourselves with the vigor and determination that is necessary," Chang told Fox News Digital.

Chang besides noted that successful 2020, Americans successful each 50 states received seeds from China unsolicited, which helium said "was an effort to works invasive species" successful the U.S. He besides noted that this year, Chinese online retailer Temu did the same.

"Imagine walking into your section market store and seeing bare shelves wherever bread, cereal, and adjacent favored nutrient utilized to be," Jason Pack, a erstwhile FBI supervisory peculiar agent, told Fox News Digital. "Prices spike. Supply chains dilatory down. All due to the fact that a overseas histrion deliberately targeted the crops that support America fed. That whitethorn dependable far-fetched, but it’s precisely the benignant of script that becomes imaginable erstwhile idiosyncratic brings a unsafe cultivation pathogen into the United States.

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"It doesn’t instrumentality a weaponry to disrupt an economy. It takes a biologic cause similar Fusarium graminearum introduced into the incorrect spot astatine the incorrect time. Food prices rise. Livestock suffer. Exports stop. The economical ripple effects are enormous."