News broke this week that three Chinese nationals have been charged in multiple incidents, two for attempting to smuggle a highly toxic fungus into the U.S. with the purpose of using it as an agroterrorism weapon and one for attempting to smuggle American military equipment and technology into China. The incidents are part of an ongoing campaign conducted by Xi Jinping’s regime to subvert the U.S. even as President Trump continues talks with the communist leader over a trade deal.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Chinese citizens Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, have been charged with “conspiracy, smuggling goods into the United States, false statements, and visa fraud.” The charges stem from allegations that the pair attempted to smuggle a fungus called Fusarium graminearum through the Detroit Metropolitan Airport and into a laboratory at the University of Michigan, where Jian worked. The fungus “causes ‘head blight,’ a disease of wheat, barley, maize, and rice, and is responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year” and can cause “vomiting, liver damage, and reproductive defects in humans and livestock.”

Just days prior, the DOJ announced that another Chinese national, 43-year-old Cui Guanghai, along with a United Kingdom citizen with permanent U.S. residency, 63-year-old John Miller, have been charged with “interstate stalking and conspiracy to commit interstate stalking, conspiracy, smuggling and violating the Arms Export Control Act.” According to court documents, the pair allegedly “sought to procure military equipment including missiles, an air defense radar, drones and cryptographic devices starting in November 2023” and conspired to ship them to China undetected, in part by hiding a “cryptographic device in a blender.”

The incidents mark the latest examples of Chinese nationals infiltrating American institutions on orders from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In May, it was revealed that numerous Chinese students at the University of Stanford were acting as CCP spies in order to collect data and research in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence and submit it to Beijing. Studies have found that over 200 espionage campaigns have been carried out by China against the U.S. since 2000, far outnumbering any other country.

Still, the White House has made no mention of the ongoing sabotage campaign as it has signaled that President Trump is willing to continue direct negotiations with Xi in order to iron out a trade deal after the president imposed 50% tariffs on all Chinese goods. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that a call will happen between the two leaders this week to discuss a trade deal. “I like President Xi of China, always have, and always will, but he is VERY TOUGH, AND EXTREMELY HARD TO MAKE A DEAL WITH,” Trump posted on social media Wednesday.

Experts like Gordon Chang, a distinguished senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute, say that the U.S. should take more direct action against China in retaliation for its ongoing subversion operation against America.

“Why are we continuing to talk to China about trade when we caught it carrying out a biological weapons attack on our farms?” he told The Washington Stand. “The Chinese will continue to hit us until we start hitting back. We need to hit them hard.”

“The Communist Party is fighting a Chinese-style war against us, and we are not fighting back,” Chang concluded. “What is wrong with us? It’s time we get mad — really mad.”

Lawmakers like Rep. John McGuire (R-Va.) concur, insisting that President Trump should not back down on the tariffs he imposed on China in order to hold the communist regime accountable for its hostile tactics.

“China believes that everything can be used as a weapon and everything should be used as a weapon,” he emphasized during “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” Wednesday. “… If you look at the fentanyl overdose epidemic in our country, it’s being produced in China, coming across our southern border and poisoning the American people. And this [bioweapon incident] is just another example of them. You’ve seen [how] they hack into our technology, our military technology. They bring people here on vacation so they can go back to China and they have dual citizenship. And this is another example of China going against the American people.”

“[W]e’ve got to respond with tariffs,” McGuire exhorted. “The intellectual property thefts, all those things. We have to stand up to China.”