Chinese Steal Rice Seeds

Well, I thought I had heard everything when the Chinese stole seed corn out of the ground in Iowa, but I guess that was just one more notch in the agricultural theft by Chinese businesses.  They know no shame and no limits on what they try to steal.

The latest, documented by the Depaertment of Justice, is the theft of rice seeds from a laboratory  in Stuttgart Arkansas.  Fox news has a story on this too and says there were two culprits cooperating in the theft of rice seed: "Yan was a geneticist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture at the Dale Bumpers National Research Center in Stuttgart, when he was originally charged in December 2013. He and another scientist Weiqiang Zhang were charged with conspiracy to steal trade secrets and theft of trade secrets. Zhang is a U.S. permanent resident and Yan a naturalized U.S. citizen."  

Two things are wrong here.  One is the number of Chinese-Americans who cooperate with China in the theft of technology from the United States.  We take them in, give them citizenship, and they give back by stealing from us.  But the real theft involves the whole area of permanent residents created by the E5B program which is used for more than stealing technology.  Ninety-two hundred of the 10,000 visas granted in 2014 were Chinese.  We need to abolish this program which allowed political parties to say they were getting money from "US Citizens" when they were only granted citizen status by this policy of the previous Clinton administration.