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Saturday, May 02, 2020

Chinese State Media: U.S. ‘Is Likely to Regret’ Holding Beijing Accountable for Coronavirus

Chinese state media is still cranking out editorials denouncing U.S. lawsuits intended to hold Beijing accountable for the death and damage inflicted by the Wuhan coronavirus, suggesting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is more than a little worried about backlash from the pandemic, even if the legal principle of sovereign immunity protects it from these particular lawsuits.

As it has done in previous editorial broadsides against the suits, China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday expressed blustery confidence that sovereign immunity will protect the CCP from foreign efforts to collect damages for the pandemic.

The Global Times added some taunting about the number of coronavirus cases in the United States (which are reported honestly, unlike the highly questionable data Beijing has always provided on the Wuhan virus) and claimed the lawsuits filed by states like Missouri and Mississippi are merely political stunts to distract the American people from their misery.

Then, as always with CCP communiques, came the analysis from nameless “experts” and thinly-veiled threats:

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just what we need: threats from China. Every politician, University, researcher, company and individual who took money is also responsible for what China has done to us economically. They are not allies, not trading partners and if you are too stupid to understand this, then you had better be teaching you children and grandchildren how to say "yes, master" in Mandarin.

Anonymous said...

It’s time to go head to head with China they’ve been screwing Americans for decades thanks to incompetent leadership