China hit with huge judgment in COVID case

 American Action News:

The state of Missouri won a multi-billion dollar lawsuit against China for its role in the COVID-19 pandemic after none of the defendants showed up to court.

A Missouri federal judge ordered China and the other defendants on Friday to pay the state “an amount of $24,488,825,457.00,” with post-judgment interest “at a rate of 3.91 percent, compounded annually.” The People’s Republic of China and co-defendants, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology, “failed to appear or otherwise answer after being properly served, and [are] therefore in default,” Senior U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh wrote in his order.

In 2020, Missouri sued the Chinese government for $25 billion “for causing and exacerbating the COVID-19 pandemic” and for hoarding medical equipment during the pandemic, but China refused to appear in court, according to Bailey’s office. Instead, Beijing dispatched a Chinese government surrogate to litigate its lawsuit on its behalf to shield itself from legal repercussions, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s office asserted in a legal filing on Friday.

Bailey told the DCNF it was “no surprise” the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) opted to hide behind “proxy organizations like the Chinese Society of Private International Law rather than appearing in court to answer for their actions.”

“We will not allow the CCP to manipulate the legal process to evade justice — our mission is to fight for the truth and recover damages for the people of Missouri,” Bailey said.
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“In other words, the purported ‘academic organization’ that seeks to file an amicus supporting Defendants is in fact directly controlled and directed by Defendants’ agents — while it seeks to argue on behalf of Defendants, who themselves have refused to appear,” the legal motion asserts. “This Court should strike or otherwise set aside the arguments of China Society as an improper attempt by a purported amicus to litigate this case on behalf of a defaulting party.”

Bailey told the DCNF that Missouri will hold the CCP accountable for “unleashing COVID-19 on the world.”
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It will be interesting to see how Missouri can collect this judgment.  They could, for example, attack China's assets in the US and other countries.  If Missouri is successful in collecting this judgment. look for other states to bring similar cases.  Texas and Florida have larger populations impacted by Covid as does California. 

See also:

U.S. Army Soldiers Arrested for Selling Military Secrets to China

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