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

🔵 Try Epoch Times now: https://ept.ms/3Uu1JA5

This is the full version of Jan Jekielek’s interview with Sam Cooper. The interview was originally released on Epoch TV on June 12, 2025.

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.”

CHAPTER TITLES
0:00:00 - Introduction: Young Chinese Student and Agro Terrorism Threat
0:00:14 - Sam Cooper's Investigative Reporting on CCP Infiltration
0:00:47 - Willful Blindness: The CCP's Criminal Networks
0:01:11 - Exclusive Analysis: Chinese Couple's Agro Terrorism Weapon Smuggling
0:06:21 - Lessons from the Winnipeg Lab Espionage Case
0:11:02 - The Unholy Trinity: CCP, Triads, and Business Tycoons
0:15:23 - Defining the 1000 Talents Program
0:17:22 - Chinese Police Stations in North America
0:20:26 - The United Front: Concealing Illegal Activities
0:23:50 - Transnational Repression and Community Threats
0:29:55 - Personal Experiences with CCP Intimidation
0:35:04 - The CCP's Integration with Transnational Organized Crime
0:38:27 - Fentanyl Trafficking and Cartel Activity in Canada
0:46:27 - Prime Minister Mark Carney's Opportunity for Change
0:51:03 - CCP's Decentralized Drug Production Strategy
0:57:24 - Ignored Warnings and Growing Threats
1:00:57 - Cooperation Between Canada and the US
1:02:49 - Concluding Thoughts on Combating CCP Infiltration