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Chinese scholar at UM tried to smuggle biological pathogen into the US, feds say
https://www.gazettextra.com ^ | June 3 2025 | Robert Snell

Posted on 06/03/2025 2:04:05 PM PDT by Beowulf9

DETROIT — Federal agents have arrested a University of Michigan scholar from China on charges she tried to smuggle a biological pathogen into the U.S. characterized as a potential agricultural terrorism weapon that can be used for targeting food crops.

The FBI counterintelligence case against UM scholar Yunqing Jian, 33, and her boyfriend, 34-year-old Zunyong Liu, was unsealed in federal court in Detroit on Tuesday and marks the second time in less than a week a Chinese national with ties to the university has been charged with federal crimes.

On Friday, prosecutors unsealed a criminal case against a former University of Michigan Chinese student who voted illegally in the 2024 election, saying he fled the U.S. to avoid prosecution.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: biologicalpathogen; ccp; china; chinese; michigan; terrorism; uofmichigan; yunqingjian; zunyongliu
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To: Beowulf9

And...nothing will be done.


2 posted on 06/03/2025 2:06:45 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: Beowulf9

Round em up and ship em out.


3 posted on 06/03/2025 2:07:04 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Beowulf9

There’s about 300,000 more just like them still inside the gates...


4 posted on 06/03/2025 2:09:36 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: HighSierra5

Drag them both out into the street and shoot both in the head. Send a bill for the cost of the bullets to their families back in china.


5 posted on 06/03/2025 2:11:06 PM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Captainpaintball

6 posted on 06/03/2025 2:17:30 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: Captainpaintball

The fungus is already here, causing widespread damage to cereal crops. Any competent mycologist could isolate it from a field of infected grain. If their intent was to use it as a biological weapon, that is another matter and should be punished.


7 posted on 06/03/2025 2:19:20 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Captainpaintball

By Chinese law any citizen approached by the Ministry of State Security to act as a spy must comply. There are no exceptions. Having a Chinese working for you is to have a potential spy working for you.


8 posted on 06/03/2025 2:19:47 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (I had a tagline and I dropped it. The cat back-pawed it under the Barcalounger. )
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To: Captainpaintball
There is absolute zero legitimate reasons for these two to try to smuggle in this pathogen.

There are numerous pathogen storage facilities in the US and Canada that can supply research samples of this pathogen for any conceivable legit research purpose.

The only plausible explanation is that there was a desire to bring this pathogen into the country secretly and without any scrutiny of the research being done. And also to hide the Chinese origin of the pathogen if it is released into the US.

9 posted on 06/03/2025 2:27:31 PM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: Sirius Lee

I like it!


10 posted on 06/03/2025 2:37:04 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: All

And how many hundreds... or thousands... of people smuggling in similar materials... and not necessarily from China... have NOT been caught?


11 posted on 06/03/2025 3:02:19 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: LegendHasIt

ACT OF WAR!


12 posted on 06/03/2025 3:07:14 PM PDT by ssapro (SSAPRO/ EXBP)
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To: Captainpaintball

Sequence the DNA on the smuggled sample. Compare with the DNA from other US and foreign samples of the same fungus.


13 posted on 06/03/2025 3:23:11 PM PDT by omega4412
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To: Gen.Blather

We can assume that every chinese student at any university is a spy for the CCP. They are here to learn our technology and bring it back home.


14 posted on 06/03/2025 3:27:02 PM PDT by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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To: Captainpaintball

Thank you, federal agents. Expect an exchange with China soon since their spies actions failed.


15 posted on 06/03/2025 3:42:51 PM PDT by gildafarrell (You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.)
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To: Captainpaintball

I saw this story in my news feed from CBS….. the headline had the sarcastic “deadly” “pathogen” in quotes. These folks are insufferable.


16 posted on 06/03/2025 3:45:32 PM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Captainpaintball

Cancel every single Chinese visa tomorrow. Give them all 7 days to leave or face prosecution. Tell them we will consider issuing new ones on a case by case basis once they turn the fugitive over to us.

Oh, and make that guy who smuggled this stuff in eat a pound of it after we make him watch his girlfriend eat a pound of it.

L


17 posted on 06/03/2025 3:53:52 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: rdcbn1

The Han Chinese are completely racist and would release a pathogen that would kill all non-Han Chinese in a heartbeat. This particular pathogen was brought to destroy food crops and hopefully create mass starvation. This is an act of war. Nothing less.


18 posted on 06/03/2025 4:06:34 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Seruzawa
he Han Chinese are completely racist and would release a pathogen that would kill all non-Han Chinese in a heartbeat. This particular pathogen was brought to destroy food crops and hopefully create mass starvation. This is an act of war. Nothing less.


Darn right.

The Han have a racist superiority complex that is off the charts level arrogant.

They considered their Gweilo colleagues in our program as distinctly inferior (and many were), everyday Americans as a lower form of life and black people as the same sort of delicacy as they would consider a monkey.

And the Mandrin are not exactly shrinking violets either.

19 posted on 06/03/2025 4:21:32 PM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: Captainpaintball; All

Can someone say Act of War!

China is at war with us, whether we acknowledge it or not!
Its not a war of troops, planes and navies at least not yet.
It’s a war of influence, bribery, economic sabotage and theft as well as low level biowar.

We need to kick all China visa holders out of the country for at least one year! And either greatly ratchet up tariffs on Chinese goods or suspend trade.


20 posted on 06/03/2025 4:39:49 PM PDT by Reily
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