The Chinese-U. Mich. Bioweapon Connection

From the Daily Mail: "Inside China's bioweapons plot that transformed Michigan's 'Big House' into ground zero of covert warfare." The article reports that on November 5, federal agents charged three Chinese nationals - Xu Bai, 28, Fengfan Zhang, 27, and Zhiyong Zhang, 30 - with conspiring to smuggle genetically modified biological materials related to round worms into the US while working at a University of Michigan (U-M) Shawn Xu research lab. Zhang was also charged with making false statements to federal agents about the shipments. 

    These cases follow the June arrest of Chengxuan Han, a PhD student from Wuhan who pleaded no contest to smuggling charges before being deported and barred from returning to the US.

    Han had sent the modified worm samples from China before joining the lab in Ann Arbor herself.

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    In the same month Han was arrested, federal prosecutors charged a Chinese couple - Zunyong Liu and Yunqing Jian - with trying to smuggle a dangerous crop fungus into the US, which could potentially devastate American fields and poison livestock.

Federal authorities also claim that the more than 600 research and teaching labs at U-M have repeatedly been hijacked by Chinese students and researchers for illicit activities. And beyond the shenanigans at the research labs, the article mentions that "[i]n 2023, five Chinese U-M students were charged after a midnight visit to Camp Grayling, a military training installation in northern Michigan," adding that "Federal agents say they deleted photos, lied about why they were there and tried to cover their tracks. They had all graduated and left the US before charges were filed in October 2024." Finally, the article relates:

    Since 2020, U-M has received $375 million in foreign funding, including tens of millions from Chinese entities.

    The university struck major partnerships with:

• Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) - on aerospace, engineering, and rocket-fuel science
• Beijing Institute for Collaborative Innovation (BICI)
• Southern University of Science and Technology
• Peking University
• Multiple Chinese robotics and tech firms

In 2017, U-M even launched its official name in Chinese characters.

    And until 2019, it hosted a Confucius Institute, widely seen as a soft-power arm of Beijing. 

In other words, the University of Michigan has become a hot spot of spying, bio-terror, and has been assisting China in making better ballistic missiles. 

More: "Chinese scientist who smuggled dangerous ‘vomitoxin’ fungus into US deported"--New York Post.