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News this week that several Chinese nationals were charged with conspiring to smuggle biological materials into the U.S. while working at a university laboratory is renewing calls to address the growing threat of foreign nationals infiltrating top institutions for nefarious reasons.

"The news from Michigan this week was entirely unsurprising," Reagan Dugan, project manager for higher education at Defending Education, told Fox News Digital in response to news that Chinese nationals had been charged for importing biological material related to roundworms from China under the "guise" of research at the University of Michigan, according to authorities.

"The CCP has made clear that they see the American education system as a

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