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2 Chinese nationals charged with smuggling 'dangerous' 'pathogen' into US: DOJ
ABC News ^

Posted on 06/03/2025 12:46:06 PM PDT by Tai_Chung

Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, citizens of the People’s Republic of China, were allegedly receiving Chinese government funding for their research, some of which at the University of Michigan, officials said. "The complaint also alleges that Jian’s electronics contain information describing her membership in and loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party. It is further alleged that Jian’s boyfriend, Liu, works at a Chinese university where he conducts research on the same pathogen and that he first lied but then admitted to smuggling Fusarium graminearum into America -- through the Detroit Metropolitan Airport -- so that he could conduct research on it at the laboratory at the University of Michigan where his girlfriend, Jian, worked," according to a DOJ press release.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: China; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: aliens; annarbor; ccp; china; michigan; uofmichigan; yunqingjian; zunyongliu
More bad intentions from China
1 posted on 06/03/2025 12:46:06 PM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: Tai_Chung

Send a message that terrorism of any sort will not be tolerated in the United States by HANGING BOTH OF THEM.


2 posted on 06/03/2025 12:53:22 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Tai_Chung

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibberella_zeae


3 posted on 06/03/2025 12:57:03 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Tai_Chung

It destroys WHEAT.......................


4 posted on 06/03/2025 12:57:36 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Tai_Chung

Make them ingest it.

L


5 posted on 06/03/2025 1:01:31 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Lurker
Detain them for terrorism and send them to Gitmo.
6 posted on 06/03/2025 1:03:33 PM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: Tai_Chung

“”Jian’s electronics contain information””

Question? What does that mean?


7 posted on 06/03/2025 1:05:12 PM PDT by Thank You Rush ( )
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To: Tai_Chung

“so that he could conduct research on it at the laboratory at the University of Michigan, where his girlfriend, Jian, worked,”

That story is dumb enough to believe, given the lax security and control in Chinese labs. In a way that makes it worse than if he were a spy.

In my experience, there are an awful lot of naive/entitled people in China.

He should still be sent home, so should his girlfriend.


8 posted on 06/03/2025 1:06:44 PM PDT by Fai Mao ( All Democrats are pedophiles )
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To: Lurker

Inject them with it, and deliver them to Beijing.


9 posted on 06/03/2025 1:07:48 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: Tai_Chung

Do any good intentions come out of China these days?


10 posted on 06/03/2025 1:11:54 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (In a way ge is right as)
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To: Fai Mao
He should still be sent home, so should his girlfriend.

They should be sent home ONLY if you believe they did not have bad intensions.

I think they should be detained until intensions are figured out. At a minimum, he should be charged for knowingly smuggling it into the country.

11 posted on 06/03/2025 1:13:32 PM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: Tai_Chung

I can agree with that.

Let me rephrase:

The girlfriend should be sent home regardless, even if she wasn’t part of the plot. He should stand trial for, assuming no malicious intent, violating import laws regarding dangerous substances and, at a minimum, be fined, and probably spend time in jail.

Ask him, “What would the PRC do to you if you brought controlled substances into China? Why should we be nicer to you than your government would be to us?”


12 posted on 06/03/2025 1:23:22 PM PDT by Fai Mao ( All Democrats are pedophiles )
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To: All

Put them up against a wall and shoot them.


13 posted on 06/03/2025 1:28:24 PM PDT by mmichaels1970 ( )
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To: Tai_Chung

Sinister.


14 posted on 06/03/2025 1:45:36 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: Tai_Chung

Trying to infect our wheat and barley crops? Guess who the top producers of wheat and barley are? China, India and Russia. This might be an attempted direct attack in our trade war. And this is exactly what we should be looking out for. Thousands of small attacks on our crops, fires in our forests, arson against our industries and infrastructure.


15 posted on 06/03/2025 1:46:46 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: Red Badger

I think we already have this in the wild, in the US.


16 posted on 06/03/2025 1:53:22 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Tai_Chung

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mpmi/people-2/current/

Yunqing Jian is from Sichuan, China. She received her Ph.D at Zhejiang University in 2020, and had a two-year postdoc experience there. During her Ph.D training, she studied the mechanisms of how fungi combat with plant-derived stresses. She joined our lab in August, 2022 as a post-doc, and her research mainly focused on evolutionary perspective of RLKs and their ligands.


17 posted on 06/03/2025 2:11:03 PM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: ConservativeMind

Since this came from China, you know they have messed with it.................


18 posted on 06/04/2025 5:22:37 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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