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June 12, 2025 - Epoch Times
03:21
From Agroterrorism to Bioweapons Research: How the CCP Infiltrates the West | Sam Cooper
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A young 33-year-old university student from China, a Communist Party member, with her boyfriend, was discovered by FBI counterintelligence to be coordinated in smuggling a potential agro-terror weapon into the United States, lying about it.
And the record shows they were evidently working on What really struck me from the findings found on the young woman's phone was her pledge of loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party, which included ties to her research grant funding.
Other stunning information, of course.
As you know, Yan, we're in a Cold War that appears to be getting pretty hot between Beijing and Washington.
And so this type of case raises the concern that Chinese students with connectivity to Chinese research grants, which evidence shows from previous cases from the FBI, is part of China's Thousand Talents dual-use plan.
These types of, let's just call them, potential agents of the Chinese military are using North American research facilities to potentially work on bioweapons.
And so there's a lot more to that case, but I can jump into where I think I'm adding world-level reporter value is the cases in Canada that speak to those findings.
So the Winnipeg Lab case, evidence has trickled out.
Very, I would say, unwillingly out of Ottawa for years now that a couple, again, a married couple from China had been allegedly, according to the documents we now have access to, working with the highest levels of Chinese military's bioweapon program in Ebola research.
Of course, from the Chinese side, this is about defensive technology.
But CSIS records that have come out in Ottawa do in part to my digging show that these two scientists in the Winnipeg lab were covertly running Chinese military-connected research students.
They're research students undercover, but they were being run into Canada with visa fraud.
They were running clandestinely materials from China.
And connected to the Wuhan Institute of Virology into the Winnipeg lab.
So there's a lot going on there, but my top level findings are we have a Chinese couple who have pledged loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party.
Evidence shows they have been working, at least the woman, Dr. Chu, in Winnipeg, working with the highest levels of the People's Liberation Army bioweapon program.
Documents show that Dr. Chu in Canada was clandestinely working on two projects for the Wuhan lab.
Ebola gain of function using Canada's facilities and the bat phyllo virus projects, which others have shown, also involved controversial US-based researchers.
And so we could talk for a few hours about this case alone, but those findings of visa fraud and
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