Fox News correspondent David Spunt reports on the latest espionage attempts by Iran and China on 'Special Report.'

In June, the fragility of our food supply was exposed when foreign nationals, including a member of the Chinese Communist Party, were charged with smuggling a noxious fungus into the United States. Experts describe it as a potential agroterrorism weapon and responsible for billions in annual losses around the world. 

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the two foreign nationals planned on using a University of Michigan laboratory to further their scheme involving the biological pathogen that causes crop disease and is harmful to human health. This is just one example of how our global competitors have been playing the long game – infiltrating American research institutions, taking control over American farmland, launching cyberattacks on agribusinesses, stealing our biotechnology and flooding our markets with cheap imports. 

That ends today. 

CHINESE 'AGROTERRORISM' COULD THREATEN US 'SURVIVAL AS A NATION,' EXPERT WARNS

American agriculture is not just about feeding our families but about protecting our nation and standing up to foreign adversaries who are

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