Posted on 04/06/2026 11:23:38 AM PDT by algore
A Chinese researcher at the University of Michigan took his own life after being subjected to 'hostile questioning' by federal agents, it is claimed.
Danhao Wang, an assistant research scientist in the school's College of Engineering, died on March 20 inside the university after falling to his death.
Police said they are investigating his death as a 'possible act of self-harm', with the China Ministry of Foreign Affairs claiming he took his life after 'hostile questioning'.
A statement, which did not name Wang, said that the postdoctoral scholar took his life 'after being subjected to hostile questioning by U.S. law enforcement'.
It added: '[This] calls into question once again the impact and legitimacy of unwarranted U.S. interrogation and harassment targeting Chinese researchers and students.'
The statement also called on the US to carry out a 'full investigation' and to give Chinese authorities and Wang's family a 'responsible explanation'.
Police said that an individual was found inside the atrium in the UM George G. Brown Building in Ann Arbor on March 19 and he was later pronounced dead.
Karen Thole, College of Engineering Dean, later identified the researcher as Wang in an email to the whole college, seen by MLive.
In it, she said: 'Dr. Wang was a promising and brilliant young mind, whose research into wide bandgap III-nitride semiconductor materials and devices published in Nature stands as a landmark, uncovering for the first time the switching and charge compensation mechanisms of emerging ferroelectric nitrides.
His death came just days after University of Michigan's interim President Domenico Grasso appeared before a House Committee on Education and workforce.
He appeared to address concerns that there was Chinese espionage being carried out within American universities.
Grasso told lawmakers that foreign students were crucial to the school
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Speaking of Chinese researchers at the U of michigan (lifted from another thread)
…”The affidavit, which said Jian has been attempting to smuggle the pathogen into the U.S. since she began post-doctoral studies funded by China in 2022, also accuses Jian of asking a third party to send her Fusarium graminearum in January 2024.
“There are usually no problems,” Jian said in a message to the third person. “Rest assured. I have mailed these before.”
That third person allegedly shipped the package, and hid the samples in a statistics textbook. The package was intercepted before it arrived.
One of the two Chinese nationals arrested for allegedly smuggling a toxic crop-killing pathogen, which also has devastating health effects on humans, stuffed the noxious fungus into her boots while entering the U.S. in 2022, documents show.
According to an arrest affidavit for University of Michigan post-doctoral research fellow Yunqing Jian and her boyfriend, Zunyong Liu, Jian first brought Fusarium graminearum, described as a “potential agroterrorism weapon” in scientific literature, in August 2022.
A transcribed WeChat conversation between Jian and Liu shows Liu instructing Jian on how to smuggle the fungus, according to the affidavit.…
Of course, we are required to believe the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Lying...er...Foreign Affairs. We all know what kind of affairs the Chinese encourage - with DemocRAT congress-critters.
“A statement said” he was murdered by Chinese communists after agreeing to cooperate with US law enforcement.
Well, that leaves it wide open for interpretation.
"Mr Wang are you here legally?"..."Arghhh I'm going to jump!!"
That looks like a nice place for him to commit suicide.
They get put in an impossible situation. Of course I don't know if that was the case here.
There are two parties to blame: a) the disgusting CCP; b) the universities that love the money poured in by foreign students (and governments) who then look the other way.
American universities are simply accessories to Chinese espionage.
I wonder who would benefit more from a Chinese spy, uh, student, ending up dead? The US wanting to know what he was doing? Naaaah, then they’d never find out. Wait a minute, that could be a clue! Who would want him to not divulge his connections to the CCP who has his family under surveillance? Hmmm...
Sum ting wong, Wang?
You’re only committing espionage if you’re passing classified material to other countries. Doesn’t even have to be adversaries.
It’s highly unlikely he was doing anything classified. It’s very likely he was keeping the PRC very closely informed on his work. Also he’s training PRC grad student visa holders. This could create intellectual property issues vis-a-vis the PRC and U of Michigan. Universities hardly ever contest that. Since they’re “Citizens of the World” it would be so unfriendly!
No problem let’s bring in 600k more Chinese students! Trump doesn’t seem to think its an issue.
Shoddy yellow journalism. Who gave the ‘statement’ that it was hostile questioning? Doesn’t appear to be the Chinese embassy or the school. Perhaps it was the communist controlled student workers “union”?
Have you seen my Wang?
Everybody Wang Chung tonight!
UMichigan is a woke cesspool. No doubt riddled with chinese intel.
They didn’t give him a suicide pill?
All the people who died died
Notice how the media prints with certainty on stories like this but others the word allegedly appears all over the story.
He bit his cyanide tooth.
A gambit by PRC to pull a race card to stop legit inquiries into Chinese spies.
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