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We're under attack.

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We could lose our country becaus

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We are not defending it with

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The vigor and determination that

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Necessary.

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Two chinese nationals are facing

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Charges for allegedly smuggling

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Dangerous fungus into america.

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This is a fungus that

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Has caused billions and billions

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Of dollars in agricultural damag

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Prosecutors say it's a potential

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Agro-terrorism weapon.

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American.

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Would die in great numbers if

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Our agriculture were blighted.

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Imagine walking into

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Grocery stores and seeing no

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Bread and nothing else

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That might have wheat in it, eve

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An ingredient.

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Those students were

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Doing something they knew they

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Should not be doing.

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That automatically tells me that

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Their intent was not great.

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One doesn't carry in a pathogen

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By a mistake.

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It's not as if they don't have

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Laboratories and universities in

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China, so there's some reason

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They're here.

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We have a dangerous product.

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I don't want to work on it in wu

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I'll bring it to america's

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Heartland.

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And if there's any risk, america

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Can deal with the risk.

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This was an act of

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Terrorism. This was act of

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Bioterrorism.

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This was a weapon of mass

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Destruction.

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The international spy museum

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In washington, d.C.

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Inside this vault,

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Thousands of rare and decommissi

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Espionage artifacts line these

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Shelves, kept from the

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Public eye.

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Everything from code machines to

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Disguises, a glimpse into

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The spy work of yesterday.

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But today, the intelligence

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Community is up against an invis

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Enemy.

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So small, you can't see it with

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The naked eye, but so powerful

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It could cripple the american

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Economy.

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It sounds like something out of

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Sci-fi movie, but it's a

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Very real threat at our airports

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Shipping ports, and post offices

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Every single day.

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And it's not arriving here by

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Accident, it's being smuggled

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In.

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And its destination isn't

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A dark alley or the dark web,

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But a place you might least

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Expect.

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The university of michigan,

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One of the oldest and most

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Competitive public colleges in t

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Country, known for its elite

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Academics and powerhouse

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Football programs.

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They're in a beautiful city, ann

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Arbor. They have wonderful sport

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Teams, excellent graduate progra

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Roughly 53,000 students

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Pass through the prestigious cam

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Every year.

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The next generation of engineers

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Scientists, and doctors spending

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Countless hours in lecture halls

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Libraries, and laboratories.

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Many are driven by a promising

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Tomorrow, but not everything

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Is as it seems.

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Two chinese nationals are facing

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Charges for allegedly smuggling

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Dangerous fungus into america.

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Prosecutors say it's a potential

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Agro-terrorism weapon that

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Could be toxic for crops like wh

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Barley, and rice.

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In June of 2025,

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Chinese nationals working at the

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University of michigan were char

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With smuggling in pathogens.

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The pathogen, known as fusarium

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Graminarium, or

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Fg for short,

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Attacks cereal crops,

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Which can cause billions in econ

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Losses.

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A man named lou,

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Was caught smuggling

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Fg through the detroit airport.

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And he had tried to conceal it

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In his backpack and

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Crumpled up tissue to make it lo

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Like it was something innocuous.

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Cbp is very, very

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Good at identifying strange

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And possibly dangerous

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Stuff coming into the united sta

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And through that screening proce

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They discovered that he had

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Smuggled in this particular

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Fungus.

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The fungus caused what's

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Known as head blight.

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It's a disease that primarily

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Affects grain.

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Wheat, barley, rice.

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So it destroys the kernel on

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The wheat plant.

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And then if animals consume it,

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Animal gets sick.

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And then, if people consume it I

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Could lead all the way up to dea

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This is a fungus that

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Has caused billions and billions

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Of dollars in agricultural damag

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Face to face with cbp

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Officers, lew denied bringing

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In the devastating fungus,

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But eventually came clean.

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The man told officials he wanted

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Conduct research on it at the

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University of michigan.

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His girlfriend, also a chinese

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National, had been working at th

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University since 2023.

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We discovered that she also

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Had smuggled the same fusarium

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Into the us a few years earlier.

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Encrypted messages on a system

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Called wechat gave a

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Play-by-play of what the couple

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Been up to.

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2022, she smuggled

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Fusarium graminarum

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Through the san francisco airpor

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Inside her shoes.

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The couple knew well how destruc

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The fungus could be since

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Their research began years earli

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In china.

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They were coming from a universi

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That is affiliated with not

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Only the chinese communist party

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But the chinese military.

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They did extensive research, the

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Wrote papers, and then

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They came over here.

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The pair flew under the radar fo

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Years, all while working for

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The chinese government.

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What is so alarming is

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That the university of michigan

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No idea what's going on in this

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Lab the entire time.

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They don't know that the permits

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Have not been obtained.

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Those students were

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Doing something they knew they

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Should not be doing.

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That automatically tells me that

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Their intent was not great.

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Somebody that's trying to pursue

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The nobility of science

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Tells people and then

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Are very open about it, and

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They're not sneaking things

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Into the united states or anywhe

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Else. I'm a former military

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Intelligence officer.

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If you're already hiding somethi

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There's a reason you're hiding I

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The fungus is already known to

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The usda because it's found

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In america.

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If you imagine someone has

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Developed, genetically

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Modified, or

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In a laboratory, forced it

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To defeat our

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Normal countermeasures,

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And then they release that.

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Something like wheat blast would

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Just blow through our crops.

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Imagine walking into

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Grocery stores and seeing no

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Bread and nothing else

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That might have wheat in it, eve

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An ingredient.

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It would have such a devastating

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Impact on the country.

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George recently went before

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Congress, warning that the

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Bioterrorism threat the country

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Faces

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Very real.

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When it comes to food and

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Agriculture you're not talking a

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Something that would be constrai

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Like if we just dumped

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Some chemicals somewhere.

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It would spread it would spread

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Throughout the united states and

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Then not only affect our economi

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And national security here but I

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Would affect economic and nation

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Security throughout the world.

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Agriculture comprises a large

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Part of the american economy.

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It's getting smaller, but

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Nonetheless, it's critical,

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Because everybody eats.

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China is introducing invasive

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Species, as well as

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Pathogens that will attack

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Agriculture, crops,

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Livestock, and indeed, humans as

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Well.

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I believe that china is waging a

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Campaign of agroterrorism agains

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The united states.

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After gian's arrest,

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The fbi dug into her computer

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And made a shocking

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Discovery.

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We know that she had a written

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Loyalty pledge to the chinese

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Communist party that she did whi

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She was working at the universit

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Michigan.

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We've got to remember that china

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2017 national intelligence

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Law requires every chinese

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National to spy if

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Demanded.

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No chinese entity may disobey

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A order from the communist party

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And that would include chinese

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Nationals who are working in the

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United states.

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It's not as if they don't have

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Laboratories and universities in

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China. So there's some reason

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They're here.

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There's some that they're hiding

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What they're doing.

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There's reason they were smuggli

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Something in.

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Jian spent five months in

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Jail before she was sent back

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To china.

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Her boyfriend was sent immediate

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After he was caught.

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All eyes were on the university.

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How was it possible that a

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Devastating pathogen had been

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Smuggled into one of u of m's

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Labs and no one knew about it.

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Whatever system the university o

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Michigan has in place to monitor

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What's happening in these variou

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Stem facilities doesn't

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Work.

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The us department of education

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Decided to follow the money.

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It opened an investigation into

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School's funding, accusing the

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University of being incomplete,

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Inaccurate and untimely

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When it came to public disclosur

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Surrounding funding from foreign

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Sources.

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The university of michigan has v

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Strong financial

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Incentives to bring in

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Chinese nationals.

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They had a formal relationship w

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A very problematic

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Chinese university that had

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Government and military connecti

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And it was only after congressio

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Pressure that they severed

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That formal academic relationshi

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But just a few months later, in

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November of 2025,

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It happened again.

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Three chinese research scholars

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Working at the university of

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Michigan laboratories were buste

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After allegedly attempting to

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Smuggle illegal biological

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Materials into the u.S.

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Under the guise of research.

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Now some of the packages include

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Genetically modified roundworm

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Shipped from a student in

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Wuhan.

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Miss han was a

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Student at hust university

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In wuhan.

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While she was working at that

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Government and military affiliat

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University, she sent four

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Different shipments of roundworm

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Into the united states.

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The smuggled materials went to t

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Professors working at the univer

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Of michigan.

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She later applied for a j-1

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Visa to work at the university

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Herself.

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When she applied, she

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Was being funded by the

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Chinese communist party.

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And then she came over after

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The university of michigan sent

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An acceptance letter saying they

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Going to pay her $41,000 a

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Year to come work with those

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Professors at the university

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Of michigan's life sciences

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Institute.

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With a promise to work at the

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University on taxpayer dollars,

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Han accepted the position.

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But immediate red flags were rai

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When she arrived because she

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Had wiped her phone just days

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Earlier.

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She was then investigated and

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Confessed to having smuggled

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In materials on four prior

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Occasions.

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Two other chinese national

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Researchers were charged with

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Helping han, and a third was

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Charged with making false

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Statements.

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While the fungus had the power t

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Destroy crops, the roundworms

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Were different.

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The roundworms are largely a veh

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To do genetic studies.

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The ways that they were smugglin

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Them into the country were very

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Clever.

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They would put dried out plasmid

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On paper and make it look

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Like they were doing a puzzle or

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Game.

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And then those plasmid could

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Be revitalized with water

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Later on and used in research.

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So they would hide them inside b

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Or in shoes in order

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To ship them into our country.

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I believe that really what we've

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Here is just part of a determine

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Program to take down

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American agriculture.

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The problem here is that as

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Americans we think we're at peac

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But china has a doctrine of

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Unrestricted warfare.

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They believe that they're at war

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With the united states.

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After these two cases,

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Congress sent a letter asking

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That the university of michigan

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Investigate what is going on

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With these research labs.

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As part of the investigation,

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The university went to talk to t

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Other chinese nationals working

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In their laboratories.

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And when they refused to answer

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Questions, the university

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Revoked their visas.

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But didn't notify the government

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Days and days, it may have even

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Weeks.

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So by the time that university

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Of michigan had notified the

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Government, those three defendan

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Were in the wind.

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Luckily, the fbi was

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Able to catch up with them at jf

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Airport, as they tried to board

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Plane and flee back to china.

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They were arrested and charged,

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But those charges would later be

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Dismissed.

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Lawmakers wanted answers.

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And just a few months later, the

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University's interim president,

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Domenico grasso, went before

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A congressional house committee.

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Are there currently any chinese

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Nationals at michigan involved I

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Research funded by either the

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Department of war or any federal

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Agency?

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We have many

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Chinese students and scholars on

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617
00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:46,038
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618
00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:47,977
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619
00:20:47,979 --> 00:20:50,610
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620
00:20:50,612 --> 00:20:52,816
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621
00:20:52,818 --> 00:20:53,816
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622
00:20:55,718 --> 00:20:57,738
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623
00:20:57,740 --> 00:20:59,638
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624
00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:02,371
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625
00:21:02,373 --> 00:21:04,377
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626
00:21:04,379 --> 00:21:06,277
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627
00:21:06,279 --> 00:21:07,277
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628
00:21:08,985 --> 00:21:10,949
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629
00:21:10,951 --> 00:21:11,949
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630
00:21:11,951 --> 00:21:14,016
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631
00:21:14,018 --> 00:21:17,338
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632
00:21:17,340 --> 00:21:18,838
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633
00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:20,544
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634
00:21:20,546 --> 00:21:21,810
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635
00:21:21,812 --> 00:21:23,944
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636
00:21:23,946 --> 00:21:25,683
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637
00:21:25,685 --> 00:21:27,749
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638
00:21:27,751 --> 00:21:29,016
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639
00:21:29,018 --> 00:21:30,116
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640
00:21:30,118 --> 00:21:32,038
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641
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,105
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642
00:21:34,107 --> 00:21:35,538
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643
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644
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645
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646
00:21:40,546 --> 00:21:41,811
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647
00:21:41,813 --> 00:21:43,783
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648
00:21:43,785 --> 00:21:45,883
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649
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650
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651
00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:50,505
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652
00:21:50,507 --> 00:21:52,105
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653
00:21:52,107 --> 00:21:54,211
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654
00:21:54,213 --> 00:21:55,711
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655
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656
00:21:59,218 --> 00:22:01,050
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657
00:22:01,052 --> 00:22:02,883
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658
00:22:02,885 --> 00:22:04,572
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659
00:22:04,607 --> 00:22:06,505
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660
00:22:06,507 --> 00:22:08,772
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661
00:22:08,774 --> 00:22:10,377
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662
00:22:10,379 --> 00:22:12,411
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663
00:22:12,413 --> 00:22:14,777
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664
00:22:14,779 --> 00:22:16,716
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665
00:22:16,718 --> 00:22:18,383
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666
00:22:18,385 --> 00:22:26,355
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