What’s truly outrageous is the Chinese government demanding a full investigation into this UM “researcher” who jumped to his death after federal questioning. Suddenly they’re concerned about Chinese people’s lives and rights?
Give me a break. Look at how the CCP mistreats its own people in China — the surveillance state, censorship, forced labor camps, communism, and so on. Not to mention, the poor dogs they torture and eat.
Hypocrisy level: expert.
A Chinese University of Michigan “researcher” jumped to his death from a building on campus last month after he was questioned by federal officials, sparking demands for an investigation by the Chinese government.
Neither the University of Michigan nor the U.S. government have released any details on the death.
“We are reaching out to share the sad news of the death of an assistant research scientist employed in the lab of Zetian Mi, who fell from an upper story of the GG Brown building last night,” read a March 20 internal email from UM’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department cited by both World Socialist Web Site and Eye on Digital China.
Ten days later, the Chinese Consulate General in Chicago confirmed the incident followed “questioning by US law enforcement personnel.”
“For some time now, the U.S. has overstretched the concept of national security for political manipulation and groundlessly interrogated and harassed Chinese students and scholars,” the consulate wrote in a post to X. “These moves infringe on Chinese citizens’ legitimate and lawful rights and interests, poison the atmosphere of people-to-people and cultural exchanges between China and the U.S., and create a serious chilling effect.
“China solemnly calls on the U.S. to carry out a full investigation, give the family of the victim and the Chinese side a responsible explanation, stop any discriminatory law enforcement targeting Chinese students and scholars in the U.S., and stop imposing wrongful convictions,” the post read. READ MORE