{"id":140352,"date":"2025-11-12T22:14:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140352"},"modified":"2025-11-12T22:14:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:14:24","slug":"chinese-scientist-pleads-guilty-in-us-toxic-fungus-smuggling-caseunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140352","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientist pleads guilty in US toxic fungus smuggling caseUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostA Chinese scientist charged in Michigan with smuggling biological materials pleaded guilty on Wednesday but was given no additional time in jail beyond the five months she already spent in custody.<br \/>\nJian Yunqing, who was a temporary researcher at a University of Michigan lab, will be released and quickly deported. A judge called it a \u201cvery strange\u201d case involving an \u201cincredibly accomplished researcher\u201d.<br \/>\nJian, 33, was arrested in June and accused of conspiring with a boyfriend to study and nurse a&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3332558\/chinese-scientist-pleads-guilty-us-toxic-fungus-case-will-be-quickly-deported?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostA Chinese scientist charged in Michigan with smuggling biological materials pleaded guilty on Wednesday but was given no additional time in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140352"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}