Chinese Nationals Charged with Smuggling Dangerous Biological Agents into the US
TL;DR
A Chinese scholar at the University of Michigan and her boyfriend were arrested for attempting to smuggle a dangerous plant pathogen into the U.S. to conduct research, raising national security concerns about agroterrorism and espionage.
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- Chinese scholar at UM tried to smuggle biological pathogen into the U.S., feds say The Detroit News
- Patel: Chinese nationals charged with smuggling 'known agroterrorism agent' into US is a 'direct threat' Fox News
- Chinese couple charged with attempt to smuggle noxious fungus into US Financial Times
- Chinese nationals accused of smuggling 'dangerous biological pathogen' into US BBC
- FBI says it broke up effort to bring toxic fungus to Michigan lab from China AP News
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