Chinese nationals arrested at top school shows how CCP views US universities as 'weak link,' experts warn
News this week that several Chinese nationals were charged with conspiring to smuggle biological materials into the U.S. while working at a university laboratory is renewing calls to address the...
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News this week that several Chinese nationals were charged with conspiring to smuggle biological materials into the U.S. while working at a university laboratory is renewing calls to address the growing threat of foreign nationals infiltrating top institutions for nefarious reasons. "The news from Michigan this week was entirely unsurprising," Reagan Dugan, project manager for higher education at Defending Education, told Fox News Digital in response to news that Chinese nationals had been charged for importing biological material related to roundworms from China under the "guise" of research at the University of Michigan, according to authorities. "The CCP has made clear that they see the American education system as a weak link in our broader national security. From their concerning partnerships with America’s leading high schools and universities, to a troublesome pattern of espionage by affiliated college students, the CCP continues to test the limits of what we’ll let them get away with." Dugan acknowledged "many foreign students have no ill intentions" when they come to study in the United States, but warned that the University of Michigan has had issues with similar situations before, and that the CCP has "no qualms" about harassing Chinese national students and threatening their families to acquire sensitive information. CLICK HERE FOR MORE CAMPUS RADICALS COAST TO COAST Fox News Digital has extensively reported on the CCP attempting to infiltrate research facilities at universities in the U.S., including earlier this year when a bombshell report out of Stanford University outlined a "widespread intelligence-gathering campaign" by the CCP at the school. "In short, there are Chinese spies at Stanford," the report warned. China expert Michael Pillsbury, a Fox News contributor, told Fox News Digital that the "real problem" is that China "seems to spend more time cultivating and even having surveillance on their students than we do." "Obviously, the FBI can’t i…