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GM Corn Smuggled in Popcorn Bags: An Industrial Espionage Parable

2020/5/28
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What do you get when you take a Chinese national, a rental car, rural Iowa, and a $52 billion seed business hanging in the balance? Said one review, "not since Alfred Hitchcock's in North by Northwest has a cornfield produced so much excitement."

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