Toren, Peter, 154
transgenic corn. See genetically modified corn
Trump, Donald, 173, 182, 234, 245
See also Trump administration
Trump administration
and agribusiness consolidation, 252
and profiling of ethnic Chinese, 250, 254
and U.S.-Chinese economic relations, 249–52, 254
Tsien Hsue-Chu, 73
Tsien Hsue-Shen, 72–74, 75
United Chinese Americans, 150
United States v. Mo Hailong and Mo Yun. See Mo case
USA Today, 178
U.S.-Chinese economic relations
and Branstad appointment, 249
Chinese grain imports, 13–14, 55–56, 68, 83, 86
and FBI industrial espionage focus, 85–86
and genetically modified seed ban, 55
and Mo case, 178, 179
and Trump policies, 249–52
U.S. Communist Party, 72
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 49, 252
U.S. Department of Defense, 70
U.S. Department of Energy, 104
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 181
U.S. Department of Justice
China initiative, 254
and DuPont Pioneer, 28
Lee case, 104–6
Monsanto antitrust suit, 49–50, 92, 114, 159–60, 189
National Security Division, 50, 156, 183, 184, 206
and profiling of ethnic Chinese, 151
Unit 61398 case, 183–84
U.S. farmers
and agribusiness consolidation, 49, 91
and corporate profits, 26
crisis for, 67–68
and flashlight seed breeding, 112–13, 232
prejudice among, 68
and U.S.-China trade war, 250–51
U.S. National Institutes of Health, 241
U.S. National Science Foundation, 155–56
vacuum cleaner approach, 101–2
See also thousand grains of sand theory
Van Nest, Jeffrey, 240–41
Varney, Christine, 49
Ventria Bioscience, 179
Wallace, Henry A., 46–47
Wall Street Journal, The, 178
Wang Hongwei, 138, 140, 144–45, 146, 235
Wang Lei
and Bondurant Monsanto field incident, 5, 6, 7, 51, 130
and Chinese agricultural delegation, 83–84, 94–95
FBI surveillance of, 94, 158
Kings Nower role of, 15
and media coverage, 193
and Montgomery hiring process, 37, 57
and Mo’s discomfort with DBN reverse engineering plan, 53–54
Mo’s frustration with, 52
and Most Wanted list, 235
Stine headquarters trip, 80
Washington Post, The, 49
Weinhardt, Mark, 191–92, 208–9, 220, 227, 228, 229–30
Wittes, Benjamin, 184
World Food Prize Foundation, 84, 85, 95, 176, 178, 255
World Health Organization, 252
World Pork Expo, 163
World Trade Organization, 24
Wray, Christopher, 239–40
Wu, Jeremy, 154
Wu Hougang, 84, 94, 95
Xi, Joyce, 151, 153, 156–57
Xi, Xiaoxing, 151–53, 154, 156–57, 186, 234
Xi Jinping
and agricultural delegation, 83, 84, 85, 94, 95, 178
and Branstad, 83, 249
on China’s science/technology rise, 162–63, 239
and MD Anderson, 244
Yang, Chen Ning, 75
Yao, Michael (pseudonym), 117, 138
Ye Fei, 81
Ye Jian
border search, 142–44, 146–47
and DBN reverse engineering plan illegality, 130–32, 139, 220
FBI identification of, 117
FBI surveillance of, 143–44, 158–59, 176
inbred corn sample collecting, 128–30, 137–38, 164, 209–10
indictment of, 176–77
Mo’s complaints about, 121
and Most Wanted list, 235
and seed shipments, 119
and seed transport, 137–41, 146
spared arrest, 163, 222
Young, Michele, 156
Yu, Xiang Dong, 81
Zeidenberg, Peter, 154
Zetterli, Sarah Tsien, 73
Zhang, Weiqiang, 179
Zhang Qian, 253
Zhong Ming, 81
Zhou Enlai, 76
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*Kevin wavered on whether to explain the process to me. He worried that a dishonest seed company executive could read the explanation and see in it a blueprint for trade secrets theft. Then when he finally did explain the process, it nearly put me to sleep.
About the Author
Mara Hvistendahl covered China’s renaissance in science and technology as a correspondent in Shanghai for Science. She has also written for The Atlantic, Popular Science, WIRED, and other publications. She is the author of Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A proficient Mandarin speaker and former National Fellow at New America, she lived in China for eight years and now resides in Minneapolis with her family.
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