July 7, 2025

In a chilling reminder of the ongoing threats to America’s national security and technological edge, Italian authorities have apprehended a 33-year-old Chinese national at Milan’s Malpensa airport at the request of the FBI, exposing a disturbing plot of industrial espionage. Xu Zewei, hailing from Shanghai, now faces extradition after being accused of targeting high-value U.S. research projects, including critical work on COVID-19 vaccine development. This arrest highlights the dangerous lengths foreign operatives will go to sabotage American innovation and steal sensitive data—yet again raising urgent questions about how deeply foreign interference has infiltrated Western scientific and industrial institutions.

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