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Chinese ‘Scholar’ from Wuhan Facing Prison for Allegedly Smuggling Biological Material into U.S.
Breitbart ^ | 08/22/2025 | Lowell Cauffiel

Posted on 08/25/2025 2:34:55 PM PDT by DFG

A Chinese national claiming to conduct research as a “visiting scholar” at a prestigious Michigan university now finds herself facing a long prison term after pleading no contest this week to three smuggling charges and making false statements to federal officers.

Chengxuan Han, also a Ph.D. candidate at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, pleaded no contest this week in a Detroit federal court to sending four packages from China containing concealed biological materials to colleagues working in a University of Michigan laboratory.

The incident is the most recent criminal case involving Chinese students possessing potential hazardous biological materials at the University of Michigan (U-M).

As Breitbart News reported, in June the U.S. Attorney’s office in Michigan brought criminal charges against two other Chinese nationals loyal to the Chinese Communist Party for allegedly smuggling into a U-M research lab a fungus that could devastate American crops — biomaterial classified as “a potential agroterrorism weapon.”

Also, the Department of Education announced last month a foreign funding investigation into U-M — a school considered “New Ivy” for offering an Ivy League-level education — citing “inaccurate and incomplete disclosures” in its foreign reports and pointing to its history of ties to China.

In the recent Han case, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Michigan’s Eastern District stated:

On June 8, 2025, Han arrived at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport on a J1 visa. Customs and Border Protection officers conducted an inspection of Han, during which Han made false statements about the packages and the biological materials she had previously shipped to the United States…At the conclusion of the border inspection, Han was interviewed by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and ICE HSI.

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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: china; ergot

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1 posted on 08/25/2025 2:34:55 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Have any of our citizens in China been arrested yet to be held for a swap?


2 posted on 08/25/2025 2:42:22 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: DFG

Ever wonder what happened to the Reedley lab incident. At least this one was perpetrated out in the open.

wy69


3 posted on 08/25/2025 2:44:15 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: DFG
I read a sci-fi story when I was a teenager; in the opening scene, a guy from the future materializes in the shadows of a Manhattan alley in the wee hours of the morning.

He walks out of the alley, turns the corner, and heads down a flight of stairs into a subway station. Looking up and down the tracks, he makes sure he's the only one there. He then takes a metal flask out of his pocket, crouches down, and spills the contents of the flask over the edge of the platform, onto the tracks below. He thinks "that ought to take care of about a quarter of them."

4 posted on 08/25/2025 2:47:44 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: DFG
Don't be fooled by normal, meek, docile looking people - this is one of the faces of our enemies:


5 posted on 08/25/2025 2:52:53 PM PDT by Semper Vigilantis (Peace - through superior firepower.)
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To: DFG
NOW - "Trump says he'll allow 600,000 Chinese students into the U.S."

Video of Trump;s statement today is here: https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1960028207605825615

6 posted on 08/25/2025 2:54:26 PM PDT by hcmama
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To: Semper Vigilantis
And today Trump announced he was going to allow 600,000 students from China into the US.

https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1960028207605825615

7 posted on 08/25/2025 2:55:57 PM PDT by hcmama
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To: All

Allowing any Chinese students into American colleges was a bone head move.


8 posted on 08/25/2025 3:04:06 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Semper Vigilantis

When I was a boy, say late to mid 70s, we had FANTASTIC success with our gardens.

Especially Zucchini.

You could grow 3-4 plants and literally feed your family and neighbors with all they needed. You almost could not kill it by neglect. And huge ones, if you didn’t pick them fast enough they could weigh 10 pounds but would get tough that big.

Today?

Start off heathy, get a blight/wilt/mold dies after, if you are lucky, you get 2-3 fruits. My departed cousin (died maybe 5 years ago) was the actual botanist/horticulturist for some mega-millionaire. His estate was so huge he had dedicated grounds keepers and my cousin was in charge of the plants/gardens/shrubbery etc. Owner was one of the Ketchup magnates, can’t remember if it was Heinz or Hunts etc.

Anyway he said the same thing, Zucchini had became so cursed with molds he planned 2 crops of Zucchini per season because no matter what he did they died fast.

WHY????

The answer to me is obvious, look at this story.


9 posted on 08/25/2025 3:19:01 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: escapefromboston

The Stable Genius wants 600,000 MORE!!! All part of the plan…


10 posted on 08/25/2025 3:27:09 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: DFG

No one brings crap like that into another country unless they plan on “accidentally” releasing it for malicious purposes.


11 posted on 08/25/2025 3:28:11 PM PDT by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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To: telescope115
Oh come on now!
What’s the absolute WORST that could happen? *

* Rhetorical question. Please do not answer. /sarc

12 posted on 08/25/2025 3:37:42 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: telescope115

That crap already exists in this country...it has been around a long time.


13 posted on 08/25/2025 3:40:58 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: DFG

And Trump wants to send 600,000 MORE Chinese agents, aka “students”, into our midst? Absolutely not!


14 posted on 08/25/2025 3:42:18 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: DFG
Chinese nationals loyal to the Chinese Communist Party Chinese nationalists are always loyal to the CCP or their families would be at risk.
15 posted on 08/25/2025 5:09:59 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: DFG

This is the reason 600000 Chinese do not need to be allowed in the US.


16 posted on 08/25/2025 5:15:13 PM PDT by dforest
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To: hcmama

Trump must STOP his insane plan to allow 600,000 Chinese (enemy) students! Should be a tenth of that - if that many - and all of them closely monitored 24/7 by our alphabet agencies.


17 posted on 08/25/2025 5:23:14 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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