From Agroterrorism to Bioweapons Research: How the CCP Infiltrates the West | Sam Cooper

American Thought Leaders

The Epoch Times

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🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

A 33-year-old researcher and her 34-year-old boyfriend, both Chinese nationals, were recently charged with allegedly smuggling into America a fungus called Fusarium graminearum, a potential bioterrorism weapon.

This recent case is just the tip of the iceberg, says investigative reporter Sam Cooper.

He played a key part in uncovering a similar case in Winnipeg, Canada.

“A married couple from China had been allegedly—according to the documents we now have access to—working with the highest levels of the Chinese military’s bioweapons program in Ebola research,” Cooper says. “They were running, clandestinely, materials from China and connected to the Wuhan Institute of Virology into the Winnipeg lab.”

For years, Cooper has been at the forefront of exposing Chinese Communist Party infiltration in the West.

He is the founder of The Bureau and author of “Wilful Blindness: How a Criminal Network of Narcos, Tycoons, and Chinese Communist Party Agents Infiltrated the West.”

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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0:00.0	A young 33-year-old university student from China was discovered by FBI counterintelligence
0:06.2	to be coordinated in smuggling a potential agro-terror weapon into the United States, lying
0:13.6	about it.
0:14.8	This recent case of alleged agro-terrorism is just the tip of the iceberg, says investigative
0:20.1	reporter Sam Cooper. In fact,
0:22.0	he played a key part in uncovering a similar case in Winnipeg, Canada last year.
0:26.6	A married couple from China had been allegedly working with the highest levels of Chinese
0:33.6	military's bioweapon program. In Ebola research. They were running clandestinely materials
0:40.6	from China and connected to the Wuhan Institute of Virology into the Winnipeg lab.
0:46.9	For years, Cooper has been at the forefront of exposing Chinese Communist Party infiltration
0:52.1	of Canada. He's the author of Willful Blindness,
0:55.5	how criminal network of narcos, tycoons,
0:57.9	and Chinese Communist Party agents infiltrated the West.
1:01.5	No one is like the Chinese Communist Party
1:04.1	in terms of the inseparable integration
1:07.1	with transnational organized crime. This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kelly.
1:13.6	Sam Cooper, so good to have you back on American Thought Leaders.
1:19.6	Great to join you, Yon.
1:21.6	Well, Sam, you've been doing some unbelievable work.
1:24.6	I'm just going to read your newest headline
1:28.5	because it speaks to something on both sides of our border.
1:33.2	Exclusive analysis.
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