The dangerous Chinese fungus-smugglers: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: A Chinese national couple charged with smuggling a dangerous fungus into the US.
We’ve heard this music earlier than (“Smuggled fungus a ‘growing’ threat,” June 4).
It appears that the Chinese Communist Party despatched a pupil to the United States with a fungus that has the potential to wipe out giant swaths of American agriculture, doubtlessly leading to mass hunger and deaths.
Sound acquainted?
Remember COVID?
Instead of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the CCP was utilizing the biolab on the University of Michigan to tinker with this doubtlessly dangerous fungus in our own yard.
Since all Chinese exchange college students pledge their allegiance to the CCP, their pupil visas should be revoked and no additional visas issued.
Kenneth Fitzgerald
Hicksville
A Chinese researcher smuggling an agricultural pathogen into this nation is a main crimson flag.
First, it was stealing mental property, then it was buying properties adjoining to army websites, then TikTok, fentanyl, COVID, a spy balloon and now this brazen act.
It’s time for the United States to take some drastic motion, corresponding to canceling all Chinese foreign-exchange pupil visas, refusing any financial donations to our universities and instantly deporting any Chinese migrants that crossed our borders illegally previously 4 years.
Bob Yusko
Valley Cottage
Anyone who nonetheless thinks that the Chinese authorities isn’t concerned in bioterrorism ought to take a take a look at Thursday’s headlines, stating that two Chinese scientists had been caught smuggling a dangerous fungus into the United States.
So COVID was a “lab accident?”
And lanternflies simply flew 6,000 miles throughout the Pacific on their own?
Please, give me a break.
President Xi Jinping must be held accountable for these atrocities.
Ted Rallis
Mamaroneck
It appears to be like like President Trump was proper again in wanting to limit pupil visas.
Commie loyalist Yunqing Jian joins Columbia’s Hamas-loving Mohsen Mahdawi as reveals one and two.
For a long time, universities in America have allowed overseas college students to check right here with little or no vetting.
It is no shock that our enemies have seized upon this observe to destroy our democracy.
Keep them out.
Robert Mangi
Garden City
During no earlier wartime of the previous 100 years had been our enemies welcomed to go to America and to buy properties or farms — and certainly not land close to strategic protection amenities.
That would’ve been silly and dangerous. But right here we’re, permitting simply that.
Finding a Chinese grad pupil on the University of Michigan doubtlessly doing agro-terror to our crops and livestock is appalling and signifies a full disregard for national security.
If this pair had been came upon final July, why is the story breaking now?
This is a ridiculous disclosure that exposes a lazy and ignorant nation, too naive to conduct easy due diligence on enemy guests.
We ought to know that too many Chinese college students are spies doing work for his or her mom nation.
Send all of them back home earlier than they do mortal injury to America.
Keep up with right this moment’s most important information
Stay up on the very newest with Evening Update.
Thanks for signing up!
Richard Klitzberg
Boca Raton, Fla.
When are we going to wake up and notice that China is making an attempt a biochemical battle in opposition to us and the world?
We have gotten to do one thing about this as a result of China won’t stop.
Gene O’Brien
Whitestone
While they’re at it, the feds ought to look into China-owned farms in America.
They may very well be purposely contaminated with these poisonous pathogens in hopes that the an infection will unfold to close by American-owned farms.
But wait: A Rutgers biologist says this ploy by two Chinese nationals doesn’t pose a new menace and that importing the fungus overtly with the correct procedures “almost certainly would have been approved.”
But then why did they attempt to smuggle it in?
Our nation is so unbelievably naive.
Jim Forkan
Bayside
Want to weigh in on right this moment’s tales? Send your ideas (alongside together with your full title and metropolis of residence) to letters@nypost.com. Letters are subject to enhancing for readability, size, accuracy, and magnificence.
