Chinese Bioweapons Labs Keep Popping Up in America

Actually, not just bioweapons labs, but there has also been a spate of Chinese students and “researchers” who have been caught smuggling in biological materials that can easily be used to damage American agriculture. 

Back in 2023, I wrote about a biological laboratory that was discovered in Fresno in an abandoned building, complete with genetically engineered test animals, viral samples, and everything you would need to cook up some nasty bioweapons. It got a bit of media attention, but as with all such things it quickly vanished into the rear-view mirror. 

China-linked Bio Lab in Fresno Co, California Had Over 900 Mice “Genetically Engineered to Catch and Carry the Covid-19 Virus” https://t.co/SAvzAx53gU

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) July 29, 2023

No doubt the press lost interest due to the lack of “new” news to cover, and that was likely the case because the federal government isn’t eager to get people panicked about things they cannot do anything about. Let the feds do their work more quietly. 

Yeah, well, these stories about Chinese people doing scary things with biological materials keep popping up. 

This is the THIRD TIME THIS YEAR where a CCP “graduate student” has been caught smuggling biological weapons into the United States.

The risk of another Wuhan flu style incident (trillions of dollars of damage, hundreds of thousands dead), is too great.

END CCP STUDENT VISAS. https://t.co/xj7QfVihl0

— joshua steinman (🇺🇸,🇺🇸) (@JoshuaSteinman) December 19, 2025

I keep reading about Chinese people smuggling in dangerous fungi, bacteria, and viruses, and you do have to wonder whether this is just a hobby for Chinese students or whether something more systematic is happening. 

An illegal bio lab was just raided in Vegas. It is directly linked to the secret Chinese lab found in California in 2023, which was oozing with E. Coli, HIV, and Malaria. Congress must pass our bill to find these illegal labs and shut them all down. pic.twitter.com/6d77hAh2DO

— Rep. Kevin Kiley (@RepKiley) February 3, 2026

Perhaps secret bioweapons labs are a common thing about which I knew nothing, but if so, one has to wonder why everybody involved seems to be from China. 

Perhaps the Chinese learned their lesson from the COVID lab leak and decided that it was much safer to do their bioweapons research right here in the United States. After all, if there is a lab leak, the pandemic will begin exactly where they wanted it to anyway, and the United States is (theoretically) better positioned to deal with it, at least now that Anthony Fauci isn’t heading up efforts. 

I wish I had something brilliant to say about what the federal government should do beyond being vigilant and tracking down these threats, but beyond a crackdown of foreign students from China, which Trump has, for some reason, rejected, it’s hard to say what it would be. 

This exactly the sort of gray-zone warfare that is hardest to control. It is damaging, but below the threshold for a military response unless you can definitively pin the blame for the damage, and likely not even then. 

How do you deter this sort of thing? Clearly, we haven’t yet, just as we haven’t kept the Chinese out of our most secure telecommunications infrastructure. 

Any ideas? It’s not like we are going to drop a nuke on Beijing. We didn’t even punish China for COVID, except a halfhearted ban on providing money to the Wuhan Institute of Biology. 

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