Why do Chinese try to steal corn in the US?

BySunset Alliance

It is a plant of the grass family, and it can be counted as the world's three biggest grains alongside wheat · rice "corn"is. Corn is eaten as staple food in some areas of Mexico, South America, Africa and is used as raw material for livestock or cornstarch, but in recent years in the United States corn theft by Chinese people has rolled up on a national level scale It is said that it is.

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On September 30, 2012,Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) investigator took contact with the US Customs and Border Protection Bureau (CBP) at the Chicago O'Hare International Airport in the United States, "I want you to immediately check the bags of two passengers from Beijing, China "I requested. Suddenly the contents of the bag was examined by Mr. Li Shiomi, president of Beijing Kings Ning Seed Science & Technology (Kings Nower Seed), a Chinese agriculture-related company, and Mr. Ye Chi-an, manager at the company's laboratory 2 people. Kings Nower Seed is a company that carries out breed improvement such as corn, rice, cotton, rapeseed oil, and it is because two executives of such companies confirmed the contents of the bag because it was suspected as "a dangerous terrorist" There is none.

When CBP examined the contents of the president's bag, some of them contained a popcorn box for making with microwave oven. Only as much as I thought, hundreds of small Manila envelopes were hidden at the bottom of this box, and it seems that each envelope was wearing meaningful numbers one by one. Likewise, when CBP examined Mr. Yee's bag, Mr. Ye was hiding a subway's paper napkin in his clothes, and furthermore when a customs inspector performed two body checks, two of his pockets A paper napkin was also found from inside.

It seems that all that was in the Manila envelope and paper napkin found by CBP was seeds of corn.

ByJoel Penner

On the same day, the FBI investigator also marked Chinese Mr. One Honway. When the border guards investigated Mr. Wang 's car in the border between the United States of America and Canada, 44 corn seeds were found under the seat of the car and the suitcase. Also, Mr. One's digital camera seems to have stored hundreds of photographs taken of cornfields.

When interrogation was conducted against Mr. Wang, the corn seeds he owned were purchased from a man named "Mo · Heylon" of Beijing Dabeinong Technology Group (DBN group), the parent company of Kings Nower Seed, He will speak. Lee, Mr. Ye, Mr. Wang, three people were repatriated to the home country after seeds of maize were seized.

ByZK-NZE

According to Mark Betten who has been in charge of intellectual property related cases for 16 years at FBI, all corn seeds seized from 3 people are sent to the bioanalytical laboratory, and they are precisely inspected "genetically modified It was found that it was "seed of corn". By inspection, it was stolenMonsantoYaDuPontIt is known that the seed development major manufacturer such as the one which was developed. In addition, it is also clear from the GPS information that the three presidents, Mr. Yee, Mr. Wang, were traveling around the new seed test farm in Iowa State and Illinois state. Genetically engineered seeds were developed to have properties such as tolerance to herbicides and are said to be used for mating to develop "hybrid species" crops.

In response to this, in December 2013, five people involved in Mohay Ha Long suspects and other Chinese biotech companies and seed enterprises who were named by Mr. Wang on charges of theft of genetically modified seeds that Monsanto and DuPont had developed I was indicted. This indictment by Chinese high-tech enterprisesIndustry spyAlthough it became obvious, the incident itself became clear little by little from September 2012 onwards.

The transition from the incident to the prosecution is summarized in the following article in an easy-to-understand manner, and a number of spy acts by executives of high-tech enterprises in China are stated.

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Thefts of corn seeds are "alarming bells" that "it shows obvious and dangerous facts."

Despite having a vast land, China has not been able to cover the amount of food consumed in its own country, and since meat has become popular among middle class families, Demand for corn, which is also used as food, is very high in China. However, due to the shortage of land suitable for water shortage and cultivation, China imports 5 million tons of corn annually from the US, which is said to account for 94% of the American exported corn.

In order to improve the food situation that China wants to cultivate an increasing population in its own country or to rely on the United States, it is necessary not only to satisfy the demand of meat domestically, but also to make all of its own farmers It must be produced. In the past few decades, the corn production in China has increased, but the land suitable for cultivation has been exhausted, and even in such a situation, in order to increase the production volume of the country, even in the current cultivation area, the production volume There is no mystery even if you aim for the production of hybrid corn, which can doubly triplicate it.

However, in China there are few developed genetically modified maize. In contrast, many manufacturers of hybrid seeds are being developed at manufacturers such as Monsanto and DuPont in the USA. For Chinese companies like the DBN group, genetically modified seeds developed by Monsanto and DuPont are very important for the next ten years and if seeds can be obtained, the number of seeds will be in the future There is no doubt that it will produce as much as ten million dollars.

ByGarry Knight

Under these circumstances, the Justice Department of the United States asserts that "the Chinese government encourages Chinese companies' industrial espionage," and indeed presents to the President of the United States an advice on intelligence issues concerning national security of"National Counterintelligence and Security Center(NCSC) "has published a report in 2011 that shows that" agricultural technology "is being targeted by industrial espionage in China and Russia. In addition, this report says "The value of American technology concerning crop production such as genetic engineering and chemical fertilizer is increasing", and the Department of Justice also triggered crackdown on agriculture related industrial espionage It is.

The federal government implicitly acknowledges that agricultural crops can become assets and even geopolitical weapons against China, and in that logic the industrial spy aiming for corn seeds in China will be a new weapon of the United States New republic pointed out that it may not be any different from people spying on the new system. Indeed, when Mau suspects were charged in July 2014, FBI's Thomas Mets investigator said, "Preventing theft of trade secrets is a priority after FBI's prevention of terrorism "I commented.

Moses who was caught by theft of genetically modified seeds are expected to be charged a fine of 5 million dollars (about 620 million yen) with a sentence of a sentence of up to 10 years.