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Following news that two Chinese citizens have been charged with allegedly smuggling “dangerous biological pathogens.” US To study at a US university, Fox News Digital spoke to a Chinese expert. China said the arrest should be a wake-up call to the country.
“I wasn’t totally surprised, but this is a sad commentary, but it speaks to the Chinese Communist Party. The CCP wants to kill Americans,” Michael Sobolik, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, focusing on US-China relations, told Fox News Digital. FBI Director Kash Patel announced Two Chinese citizens arrested.
“Look what they did by smuggling the fentanyl precursors into our country and killing Americans, and see the effect they don’t stop the spreading of Covid-19,” Sobolik said. “Dead Americans. The fact that they want to target Americans here in America to pathogens and biological age. This is the Communist Party of China. This is what they do. They want to be the most powerful nation in the world.
The couple has been accused of smuggling a fungus called Fusarium graminearum, according to the Department of Justice. Federal prosecutors point out that harmful fungi cause “head blight,” a disease in wheat, barley, corn and rice, and “responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses around the world each year.”
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The Department of Justice also says that toxins in Fusarium graminearum cause vomiting, liver damage and “reproductive disorders in humans and livestock.”
According to criminal charges, one of the accused allegedly received Chinese government funding for her work on Chinese pathogens.
The couple has been accused of bringing pathogens to the United States to study at the University of Michigan lab, raising more concerns about Chinese citizens infiltrating American universities.
Last month, Bomb Report From Stanford University, it shed light on the influence of Chinese Communist Party spies who say the student newspapers likely infiltrated honorable institutions and other universities around the country to gather intelligence.
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“American higher education is obsessed with the Communist Party of China,” Sobolik told Fox News Digital. “I’ve been hooked on simple money from Beijing for decades. Paying full tuition is crazy for international students.
“American universities must finally open their eyes and stop deliberately blinding the threat of CCP. They are vectors for intelligence newsletters. They are vectors of these threats targeting Americans in our soil. It’s unacceptable.
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Officials at the Chinese embassy said Wednesday they were unaware of the incident involving two Chinese citizens charged with smuggling “dangerous biological pathogens” into the United States for university research.
“I don’t know of any particular situation, but I would like to emphasize that the Chinese government is always demanding that Chinese citizens overseas comply with local laws and regulations, and that they will firmly protect their legitimate rights and interests.”
Daniel Wallace and Charles Craitz of Fox News Digital contributed to this report
