Posted on 12/02/2025 5:45:52 AM PST by DFG
The University of Michigan is supposed to be the pride of the Midwest.
A 200-year-old college that has been dubbed a 'Public Ivy,' the school is steeped in tradition, pride and academic excellence. It is also the home of the Wolverines and the Big House, the largest stadium in America.
Now, the beloved school is increasingly seen as a back door for Beijing - a soft target for Chinese operatives, covert networks and alleged plots involving genetically modified parasites and crop-killing fungi.
And recent arrests show just how deep the rot may run.
On November 5, federal agents charged three Chinese nationals - Xu Bai, 28, Fengfan Zhang, 27, and Zhiyong Zhang, 30 - with conspiring to smuggle biological materials into the US while working at a University of Michigan (U-M) research lab.
They were the newest names in a disturbing string of cases involving Chinese nationals allegedly moving dangerous biological samples through campus labs under the guise of academic research.
According to the DOJ, Bai and Fengfan Zhang allegedly received multiple shipments from China between 2024 and 2025 containing 'concealed biological materials related to round worms.' The parasites are known to infect both humans and livestock.
The samples allegedly had 'genetic modifications,' according to notes in the suspect packages, and were shipped to them while they worked at U-M's Shawn Xu laboratory, prosecutors say.
Zhiyong Zhang, meanwhile, was charged with making false statements to federal agents about the shipments. The three men have been terminated by U-M, making them 'eligible for removal' from the US.
These cases follow the June arrest of Chengxuan Han, a PhD student from Wuhan who pled no contest to smuggling charges before being deported and barred from returning to the US.
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HOORAY DOJ
“....from Wuhan”
Great article BUMP!
We will never wake up.
We could have a dozen foreigners who follow a foreign religion, living and training amongst us for years or months, hijack planes, kill 3000 of us and inflict billions of dollars of damage and we STILL wouldn’t wake up to the fact that foreigners DO NOT belong here.
U of M? Pfft, I went to Eastern.
P.S.- There’s a buttload of Chinese students at U of M.
Has been for over 30 years.
CC
“ who pled no contest to smuggling charges before being deported and barred from returning to the US.”
He should have been shot and the ChiComs billed for the bullet.
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Bkmk
When I read this article and think back to all the animal, plant and human diseases (And insects and fish) that came to the USA from China, makes me wonder if it was on purpose... Including all the Avian Influenzas and Covid-19.
This is where to “bioethicists” are planning on creating a tick borne virus to make everyone allergic to meat.
“President Xi would like me to come to China. It’s a very important relationship. As you know, we are taking a lot of money in from China because of the tariffs and different things,” Trump said. “I hear so many stories about ‘We are not going to allow their students,’ but we are going to allow their students to come in. We are going to allow it. It’s very important — 600,000 students.” Trump.
The Trump administration needs to make a write up of all such recent incidents of the CCP using Chinese students and America’s colleges for their own military related research. That write up needs to be handed to all Chinese students in the U.S.
Then with an apology to all truly innocent Chinese students in the U.S. (likely the majority), 100% of mainland Chinese students in the U.S. should be expelled, explaining that we have no way of determining which of them have been compromised by their government.
The survival of mankind demands we get off-world outposts
The rumor is that they were infected with super-HIV and sent back to China.
Chinese scientist who smuggled dangerous ‘vomitoxin’ fungus into US deported
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