Jesus Daniel Romero from Miami Strategic Intelligence Institute for FinGurú
I. Introduction: The Unexpected Agreement
On June 11, 2025, U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced a surprising trade agreement with China. The deal included asymmetric tariffs, early access to rare earths, and the maintenance of student visas for Chinese citizens. However, what drew attention was not what was signed, but what it forced to sign. Why did Beijing, which had rejected any concession for months, suddenly concede?
The answer lies not only in the numbers but also in a biological finding that Washington turned into diplomatic evidence.
II. Chinese Resistance and Strategic Pride
Beijing hoped to resist. Chinese diplomacy remained inflexible: Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned on April 29, 2025, that China would "not kneel" to Trump's tariff pressure, comparing yielding to a bully with "drinking poison to quench thirst." But the board changed radically when the United States exposed two lines of illegal Chinese biological research on its own territory. China conceded in just days after this comment, showing that the threat of exposing more evidence was enough to bend Beijing's line of resistance.
III. The Reedley Case: Viruses, Mice, and Chinese Labels
In 2023, local authorities discovered a clandestine lab in Reedley, California, operated by a phantom company linked to China. Inside, vials containing high-risk pathogens (COVID-19, HIV, tuberculosis, hepatitis), genetically modified mice, and laboratory equipment labeled in Mandarin, without federal authorization, were found.
IV. The Jian Case and Undercover Agroterrorism
In June 2025, the Department of Justice revealed that a couple of Chinese researchers attempted to illegally introduce the fungus Fusarium graminearum, a dangerous agricultural pathogen.
Yunqing Jian, a researcher at the University of Michigan, was cultivating the fungus without permits. Her partner, Zunyong Liu, was arrested with hidden samples in his luggage. Officials described this act as a possible case of scientific agroterrorism.
V. Trump's Relentless Strategic Move
With these pieces on the table, the narrative of former President Trump was reinforced: "China not only caused COVID, now it also plays dirty in our fields and laboratories."
Trump turned the findings into diplomatic weapons: China offered rare earths, academic access, an unequal tariff agreement, and mutual silence on the biological background.
In the tariff negotiations with the dragon, Trump made the move... and the dragon blinked.
VI. The United States Knows More Than It Shows: The Power of Strategic Intelligence
It is highly likely that the United States has information that could destroy China's global image if it decided to use it openly. What has come to light between 2024 and 2025 includes cases of espionage, undercover biology, cyberattacks, and academic sabotage. All of this could just be the tip of the iceberg.
Over the last 18 months, multiple episodes have been recorded showing a systematic pattern of Chinese operations against the United States:
● Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure such as the Department of the Treasury and telecom companies.
● Networks of academic and scientific espionage in universities such as Stanford.
● Clandestine laboratories operated by Chinese citizens on U.S. soil.
● Attempts at agricultural sabotage through the trafficking of dangerous pathogens.
● Illegal operations of Chinese police stations within the U.S.
● Disinformation campaigns aimed at undermining confidence in the U.S. electoral system.
VII. Biology as a Geopolitical Tool
This episode marks a turning point: it is no longer just about trade, but about strategic biosecurity. Trump transformed scientific findings into tools of political and geopolitical pressure. The Reedley case and the Jian-Liu operation are no longer isolated incidents: they are pieces of a broader game in which Washington demonstrated that it can expose—or silence—according to its strategic convenience.
President Trump still maintains that COVID-19 was not an accident, but an attack against the United States of Chinese origin.
This conviction has been dismissed by his political opponents and mocked by much of the media. Over the years, many labeled him as exaggerated, paranoid, or even "crazy" for warning about the systematic threat posed by Beijing's communist regime.
But the discovery of clandestine laboratories, attempts at agricultural sabotage, and scientific espionage networks proves that Trump was not only right but had a clearer and harsher view of the geopolitical adversary facing the nation.
And although many do not want to publicly acknowledge it, President Trump showed that he beat the Chinese regime, not with diplomatic rhetoric, but with strategic pressure, intelligence, and results.
VIII. Conclusion: It Was Not Trade, It Was Control
China did not negotiate out of will, but out of necessity. It was cornered by its own mistakes and by an administration that knew how to turn biological incidents into tools of diplomatic control.
Trump did not fire a single bullet. He just showed what others preferred to hide: researchers caught in the act and fungi in their backpacks.
Despite the strength of the facts, critics and media questioned the progressively assertive strategy advanced by President Trump and his team. They labeled it as risky, isolationist, or merely electoral. Some even described it as "geopolitical theater." However, the outcome proved otherwise: the combination of tariffs, academic restrictions, biological exposure, and silent diplomatic pressure bent Beijing in record time. In just 70 days, the narrative changed, and the dragon, which vowed not to kneel, ended up yielding to a surgically calibrated offensive.
References
● Associated Press. (2023). Unlicensed lab with biohazards found in California town.https://apnews.com
● New York Post. (2025, June 5). Chinese researcher charged with smuggling agricultural pathogen.https://nypost.com
● Reuters. (2025, June 6). Experts doubt FBI’s claim on crop fungus threat.https://reuters.com
● U.S. Department of Justice. (2025). Indictment: USA vs. Jian & Liu (Eastern District of Michigan).
● Trump, D. (2025, June 11). Truth Social Post.
Jesus Daniel Romero is a Retired Commander of the U.S. Naval Intelligence and has also undertaken notable diplomatic missions in Latin America. He has led inter-agency investigative teams on drug trafficking issues.
He is Co-Founder and Senior Fellow of the Miami Strategic Intelligence Institute (MSI2), and as a writer, he is the author of a bestseller on Amazon: "Final Flight: The Queen of Air."
He is currently working on his second work, a trilogy on drug trafficking, narco-states, transnational crimes, and terrorism in Latin America. He is a permanent consultant on issues of his specialty for the media in the state of Florida, United States.
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