Timeline: What Declassified Documents Reveal About the Fired Winnipeg Lab Scientists

Published on March 7, 2024

The following timeline was compiled based on information in the newly released 600-page package related to the firing of Winnipeg lab scientists Xiangguo Qiu and Keding Cheng, complemented with open-source information. The two, who are a couple, were escorted out of the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg on July 5, 2019, amid an RCMP investigation, and subsequently fired in January 2021. The timeline infographic can be seen here, as well as at the end of this article. 1996 Xiangguo Qiu, a graduate of Hebei Medical University and Tianjin Medical University, moves to Canada from China to pursue graduate studies. 1997/1998 Keding Cheng, a biologist and Ms. Qiu’s husband, immigrates to Canada from China....

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