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Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu charged after allegedly smuggling a fungus to US that can cause serious illness and billions of dollars in crop losses
Two Chinese scientists have been charged with smuggling a toxic fungus into the United States that they planned to research at an American university, the justice department has said.
Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, are charged with conspiracy, smuggling, false statements, and visa fraud, the US attorney’s office for the eastern district of Michigan said in a statement on Tuesday.

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The fungus causes “head blight,” a disease associated with wheat, barley, maize, and rice that is capable of causing billions of dollars in damage.

Two Chinese citizens were charged with a conspiracy and smuggling of a fungus that officials said is a “dangerous biological pathogen” into the United States.  Yunqing Jian, 33, and ...

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The OECD also show how the United States’s effective tariff rate had risen to 15.4% by mid-May, up from just over 2% in 2024.
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A University of Michigan research fellow and her boyfriend are charged with smuggling a "potential agroterrorism weapon" into the U.S. from China.

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