Another Chinese Researcher Arrested for Smuggling Biologics Into the US
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About a week ago, we published an episode on this program detailing how two Chinese nationals—a researcher at the University of Michigan and her boyfriend—were caught by the FBI attempting to smuggle a dangerous pathogen into the United States. This was a deadly fungus that could be used to target crops.
We ended that episode by considering out loud: How many other Chinese researchers here in the United States are possibly doing the same thing?
Within a week, another Chinese researcher, who was also from the University of Michigan, was caught by federal authorities for attempting to smuggle biological material. This time it wasn’t a fungus. It was a type of roundworm.
The concerning part of it was that this Chinese researcher came from Wuhan, China.
Let’s go through the details together.
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