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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Looks like his sins found him.
Looks like another Chinese student off’d him after he talked too much.
Danhao understood the science.
That headline is describing a suicide?
It needs a rewrite.
I would bet the thought of going back to his handlers in China did not seem like a good idea.
Shouldn’t have bit down on the cyanide capsule.
Looks like another Chinese student off’d him after he talked too much.
But Wang couldn’t fly, Wang died!
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A Chinese researcher at the University of Michigan took his own life after being subjected to 'hostile questioning' by federal agents, it is claimed.
The implication in the headline is contradicted by the very first sentence. Bias much?
Shouldn’t have bit down on the cyanide capsule.
Concrete shoes
Cyanide
TNT (Done Dirt Cheap!)
Neckties
Contracts
HIGH VOLTAGE! (Done Dirt Cheap!)
I think he must have been guilty of spying for Red China--if he was innocent, why kill himself? Unless another Chinese postdoctoral student pushed him.
I had been rooting for the University of Michigan team to beat UConn today but may need to reconsider that.
Another Biden Chinese spy.
His work supports my own research on the subject, but I doped mine with peanut butter...
He had something to hide, most likely a spy for China. Good riddance if he was.
‘possible act of self-harm’
Did he cut himself or cut off a toe? Can they no say suicide? That hurt feelings word now?
Probably ate at one of the local dives with rubbery, tough beef and off tasting sauce. Should have stuck to the cat——I mean “chicken” menu offerings.
Suicide. That’s how the real spies do it.
Hee Tu Mouf
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