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This is CBSI and the World.

I'm John Batchel with my colleague and co-host and friend Gordon Chang.

And Gordon has introduced me to a topic that is now impossible to avoid,

which is Chinese nationals, one with Chinese Communist Party identification,

are accused by the federal authorities of bringing into the United States smuggling dangerous biological substances in several instances beyond my understanding of what we're looking at.

So we're very pleased and lucky to have Brendan Weikert here.

He happens to be the author of a book from 2023, Biohacked China's Race to Control Life.

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