The FBI on Wednesday alleged that two Chinese lab researchers at the University of Michigan were plotting to smuggle a crop-killing fungus into the United States, according to the New York Post.

Yunqing Jian, 33, a Communist Party loyalist funded by the Chinese government, allegedly plotted with her boyfriend, Zunyong Liu, 34, to illegally transport the fungus, Fusarium graminearum. Last July, Liu was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on suspicion of attempting to smuggle in packages of Fusarium graminearum, the FBI told the Post.

“This is an attack on the American food supply,” one senior Trump administration official said.

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