Nov 12: 
national + CCP member + University of Michigan postdoctoral fellow Yunqing Jian (蹇韵晴) pleaded guilty to charges of smuggling a biological pathogen into the US and then lying to FBI agents about it, and was sentenced to time-served. She will be released and quickly deported.
The FBI arrested Jian in June in connection with allegations related to Jian’s and her co-defendant, Zunyong Liu’s (刘尊勇), smuggling into America the fungus Fusarium graminearum, which causes “head blight,” a disease of wheat, barley, maize, and rice, and is responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year. Fusarium graminearum’s toxins cause vomiting, liver damage, and reproductive defects in humans and livestock.
Jian received government funding for her work on this pathogen in China. Jian’s electronics contain information describing her membership in and loyalty to the CCP. Jian’s boyfriend, Liu, works at a university where he conducts research on the same pathogen and that he first lied but then admitted to smuggling Fusarium graminearum into America — through the Detroit Metropolitan Airport — so that he could conduct research on it at the laboratory at the University of Michigan where his girlfriend, Jian, worked.
justice.gov/usao-edmi/pr/c
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/n
national + CCP member + University of Michigan postdoctoral fellow Yunqing Jian (蹇韵晴) pleaded guilty to charges of smuggling a biological pathogen into the US and then lying to FBI agents about it, and was sentenced to time-served. She will be released and quickly deported.
The FBI arrested Jian in June in connection with allegations related to Jian’s and her co-defendant, Zunyong Liu’s (刘尊勇), smuggling into America the fungus Fusarium graminearum, which causes “head blight,” a disease of wheat, barley, maize, and rice, and is responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year. Fusarium graminearum’s toxins cause vomiting, liver damage, and reproductive defects in humans and livestock.
Jian received government funding for her work on this pathogen in China. Jian’s electronics contain information describing her membership in and loyalty to the CCP. Jian’s boyfriend, Liu, works at a university where he conducts research on the same pathogen and that he first lied but then admitted to smuggling Fusarium graminearum into America — through the Detroit Metropolitan Airport — so that he could conduct research on it at the laboratory at the University of Michigan where his girlfriend, Jian, worked.
justice.gov/usao-edmi/pr/c
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/n
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Sep 18: national + CCP member + University of Michigan postdoctoral fellow Jian Yunqing (蹇韵晴), who, along with her boyfriend Liu Zunyong (刘尊勇), faces charges of conspiracy, smuggling goods into the US, false statements and visa fraud, entered a plea of not guilty. x.com/Byron_Wan/stat…
Show more national + CCP member + University of Michigan postdoctoral fellow Jian Yunqing (蹇韵晴), who, along with her boyfriend Liu Zunyong (刘尊勇), faces charges of conspiracy, smuggling goods into the US, false statements and visa fraud, entered a plea of not guilty. x.com/Byron_Wan/stat…