Chinese Researchers’ Alleged Plot to Smuggle Crop-Killing Fungus Into US Is an ‘Attack on US Food Supply’: Feds

Chinese researchers’ alleged plot to smuggle crop-killing fungus into US is an ‘attack on US food supply’: feds

Yunquing Jian, 33, a Communist Party loyalist and lab researcher at the University of Michigan who received Chinese government funding for her work, plotted the illicit transport of the pathogen with her boyfriend, Zunyong Liu, 34, the FBI alleged.

Chinese Woman, Boyfriend Arrested For Smuggling Biological Pathogen Into US

According to an FBI criminal complaint, Zunyong Liu, 34, a researcher currently in China, brought the fungus into the United States while visiting his girlfriend, Yunqing Jian, 33, in July 2024.