The Chinese fungus-smuggling couple: Letters to the Editor June 7, 2025

The Issue: A Chinese national couple charged with smuggling a dangerous fungus into the US.We’ve heard this song before (“Smuggled fungus a ‘growing’ threat,” June 4).It seems that the Chinese Communist Party sent a student to the United States with a fungus that has the potential to wipe out large swaths of American agriculture, potentially resulting in mass starvation and deaths.Sound familiar? Remember COVID?Instead of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the CCP was using the biolab at the University of Michigan to tinker with this potentially dangerous fungus in our own backyard.Since all Chinese exchange students pledge their allegiance to the CCP, their student visas must be revoked and no further visas issued.Kenneth FitzgeraldHicksvilleA Chinese researcher smuggling an agricultural pathogen into this country is a major red flag.

First, it was stealing intellectual property, then it was purchasing properties adjacent to military sites, then TikTok, fentanyl, COVID, a spy balloon and now this brazen act.It’s time for the United States to take some drastic action, such as canceling all Chinese foreign-exchange student visas, refusing any financial donations to our universities and immediately deporting any Chinese migrants that crossed our borders illegally in the past four years.Bob YuskoValley CottageAnyone who still thinks that the Chinese government isn’t involved in bioterrorism should take a look at Thursday’s headlines, stating that two Chinese scientists were caught smuggling a dangerous fungus into the United States.So COVID was a “lab accident?” And lanternflies just flew 6,000 miles across the Pacific on their own? Please, give me a break.President Xi Jinping has to be held accountable for these atrocities.Ted RallisMamaroneckIt looks like President Trump was right again in wanting to restrict student visas.Commie loyalist Yunqing Jian joins Columbia’s Hamas-loving Mohsen Mahdawi as exhibits one and two.For decades, universities ...