Following the discovery of a secret, illegal Chinese biolab in California, I requested an investigation by the House. The Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party recently released its highly disturbing report, and I commend the select committee and Chair Gallagher for getting to the bottom of many of the disturbing facts in play here. The lab was run, we have learned from the committee's report, by an international fugitive from China named Jesse Zhu. After running various state-connected companies in China, Mr. Zhu moved to Canada where he set up dozens of corporations to steal valuable American intellectual property and unlawfully transfer it to China. The Supreme Court of British Columbia found he committed fraud on an epic scale, resulting in a $330 million judgment. He then fled to America, assumed a new alias, David He, and set up several more companies, including the one behind this lab in Reedley, California. The lab was discovered nearly a year ago when a code inspector came upon a suspicious warehouse in Reedley. There was a hose out of the back of the warehouse. Inside, she found many Chinese nationals wearing white lab coats, glasses, masks, and latex gloves, along with thousands of vials of biological substances, and 1,000 mice. Some of the mice were actually found dead. It was later learned that these were transgenic mice, genetically engineered to catch and carry the COVID-19 virus.…
Kevin Kiley: “Following the discovery of a secret, illegal Chinese biolab in California, I requested an investigation by the House.…”
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