Chinese Scientists Keep Poisoning People in North America

The chemical, acrylamide, is a naturally occurring substance in many foods, and the poisoner, using her scientific knowledge, may have hoped that it would go undetected in an autopsy. Wang also appeared to have rummaged through her rival’s research into cancer therapy and was trying to escape back to her native China with significant amounts of digital material.

At the same time a previous poisoning case involving a Chinese researcher was in the news as David Xu, a Berkeley engineer, who had been caught pouring cadmium into a colleague’s water bottle, had his felony conviction expunged by the pro-crime system in the Bay Area.

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As disturbing as these two incidents are, what is even more troubling is that they form part of a pattern in which at least 6 Chinese scientists have poisoned people across North America.

And that may only be the tip of the iceberg. The Wang and Xu cases were cracked because the victims or their friends and spouses came to believe that they were being poisoned and set up surveillance cameras that caught the perpetrators in the act. It likely helped that both the victims were from Asian cultures, Vietnamese and Chinese, and were more culturally predisposed to something that most Americans would never even think of when dealing with health problems.

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In 2023, Xuming Li, a PhD chemistry student at the University of South Florida (USF), was caught on camera injecting methadone under a door with a syringe because his upstairs neighbor’s newborn baby was making too much noise. Li was picked up by ICE and deported back to China. As the Xu and Kuroda cases suggest, he wouldn’t have faced any real consequences in the United States so deporting him kept him from harming anyone else.

Similar stories have kept popping up over the years.

In 2018, Yukai Yang, a Chemistry major at Lehigh University, began poisoning his roommate with Thallium, a chemical used in rat poison, which was added to his food in the fridge. After posting bail, Yang tried to flee back home to China. This was a pre-2020 case before pro-crime policies wrecked the criminal justice system and so Yang was sentenced to 7 years in prison.

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Back in America, Xiangyu Ouyang, a Chinese biochemistry grad student at Stanford, was caught on a security camera tainting the water of fellow female grad students with paraformaldehyde. This was the largest scale Chinese poisoning case in the United States with 5 known victims. The victims included two fellow Chinese women, a Korean and a Japanese woman.

While Ouyang could have faced 5 years in prison, this case from a decade ago took place in California, a pro-crime state, and she got off with 3 years of probation and some community service because a jail sentence was deemed “counterproductive”. Deputy DA Anne Seery claimed she was open to letting Ouyang go unpunished because her “conduct is so unusual.”

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After the two recent Chinese poisoning cases were in the news, some wondered if this was the work of the Chinese Communist regime. Certainly nothing can be ruled out. But poisoning rivals or inconvenient people is more culturally normative in China than it is in the United States.

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What appears to be horrifying and inexplicable to Americans comes down to cultural differences. There are over a quarter million Chinese students in America. Most have not poisoned anyone, however the larger question may be whether random poisonings on college campuses, along with espionage, is the price we have to pay for having them in this country.

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