The real implications of the Chinese fungus smuggling

A large number of Americans were perhaps surprised when they learned that two Chinese citizens Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu had been charged with trying to smuggle a fungus described as a probable agroterrorism weapon into the U S But they shouldn t have been When the Cold War with the Soviet Union ended various in the U S convinced themselves that China wasn t a threat that Beijing was moving toward democracy open markets and liberalism Nonsense In fact China clearly aims to replace us as the world s major financial market and military power They commerce with us on unfair terms and manipulate their currency causing huge pact deficits for the U S They steal or force us to surrender hardware either surreptitiously or through coercive partnership agreements with American companies that are too focused on short-term profit Across the world China undermines our diplomatic power through economic means building infrastructure on apparently generous terms but with strings attached PRESIDENT TRUMP S VISA PROTOCOL THWARTS CHINA S SPY SETUP ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES AND IN CONGRESSIt s no secret that China spies on us We surely spy on them too but they have a huge advantage in their massive resident or visiting diaspora in the Western countries for which we have no counterpart There are as of now around Chinese students in the U S but fewer than American students in China Americans number around in China while China is the third-largest immigrant group in the U S at over million China s National Intelligence Law demands that all organizations and citizens shall sponsorship assist and cooperate with national intelligence efforts China has a huge diaspora population in Western countries from students to permanent residents that it can target to bribe or bully into acts of espionage Like the Cubans and Russians they have also bribed Americans with no ethnic ties to their country to spy for them In March a Chinese illegal alien wandered onto a Marine Corps base at Twentynine Palms California He was caught but he still scoped out the safeguard at our biggest Marine base The Wall Street Journal counted such innocent incidents of Chinese here legally and illegally wandering onto or photographing sensitive U S establishment sites in modern years TRUMP MUST STAY STRONG US RELIANCE ON CHINESE MINERALS AND DRUGS PUTS AMERICANS AT RISKA hot war with China in the next decade is not an impossible scenario They are preparing for it while our military is lagging in recruitment equipment and equipment If conflict does break out we would have our hands full in the theater of conflict given China s rapid expansion in naval and air power To assist their kinetic effort in the field what might China do inside the United States It would only take a tiny percentage of the Chinese here to cause serious damage In addition to permanent residents students and visitors when last I saw numbers on this there were over Chinese nationals with criminal convictions that China refused to let us return to them In Fiscal Year Chinese nationals entered the U S illegally at or between ports of entry So far this fiscal year more than Chinese nationals have entered illegally In March I watched DHS-chartered buses dropping off aliens at a San Diego bus stop Though I saw GPS tracking anklets worn by Eastern Europeans and Central Asians I saw none on the Chinese Unless they are caught committing a crime in the meantime nearly all of them will roam free until their immigration cases are concluded various years into the future CHINA THREATENS OUR FARMERS AND FOOD SUPPLY STATES NEED TO STEP UPWith likely assets nationwide China could target our critical infrastructure including water electricity and the internet They could also deploy engineered pathogens against humans that might wreak worse damage than COVID- which we now accept bulk likely escaped from a Chinese laboratory that was funded and controlled by their military and authorities Furthermore they could attempt to destroy crops across our agricultural heartland using a bioweapon like the fungus Jian and Liu were carrying which causes head blight a infection of cereal crops We need to take this threat seriously For a generation vetting of Chinese students businesses products cultural exchanges and every other interaction with the United States has been too lax and overly trusting CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONChinese were the top foreign buyers of U S commercial real estate in and in Chinese owners held acres in the U S They often use shell companies to obscure the owner s Chinese origin Chinese individuals and entities have also purchased or attempted to buy land close to U S military installations in several states Yet the Biden administration dialed down or canceled Justice Department efforts aimed at protecting American mechanism from China Reuters disclosed in At the same time the Biden administration drastically simplified the vetting process for Chinese illegal immigrants according to a hearing before the House Homeland Assurance Committee in During the Cold War we never let Russia buy up massive tracts of land control vital industries and dominate raw material supply chains nor gave its citizens open access to our schools and markets Why do we let China Customs and Confines Protection inspectors did fine work catching the hidden fungus-needle in a haystack We need a capable motivated and fully funded Department of Homeland Precaution And over at the State Department while there is certainly room for cuts and re-organization Secretary Marco Rubio would be wise to retain the experienced experts who work to limit Chinese access to our sensitive mechanism protect American intellectual property and properly vet their visiting students and researchers It's past time to address this threat CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM SIMON ATKINSON