Should China be sued ?

[billy the kid]

Someone please tell me...what will be a plaintiffs cause of action...….

[Redneck]

Amid the global pandemic, a new report claims China should pay for the COVID-19 disaster that has caused tens of thousands of deaths and shattered the global economy.

"How much should China pay for breaking the world?"

That is the question being posed in the latest 60 Minutes promo, as the Sunday night program investigates why China is facing a six-trillion-dollar lawsuit for misleading the world about coronavirus.

https://www.dailyexaminer.com.au/news/c ... t/3997694/

At least four federal class-action lawsuits have been filed against the Chinese government that aim to recover trillions of dollars in damages for what plaintiffs allege is China's failure to contain the coronavirus outbreak and notify the international community about its dangers.

In one suit filed in late March, a coalition of California property managers and an accounting firm are seeking to represent all "small businesses" in California that have suffered as a result of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. A suit filed in mid-March by several Florida residents aims to assemble its own class of millions of people.

Larry Klayman, a conservative lawyer and founder of the group Freedom Watch, is leading another class-action complaint accusing China of releasing a "biological weapon" into the public.

All of the suits accuse the Chinese government of direct complicity in the COVID-19 outbreak and hope to use the machinery of the U.S. legal system to recover enormous amounts in damages. But the chance these actions will lead to any actual recoveries is slim, legal experts said.

The lawsuits will already face a substantial barrier in attempting to bring the Chinese into U.S. courts, explained Chimène Keitner, a professor of international law at the University of California, Hastings College of Law, and a former State Department Civil Service employee.

According to Keitner, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA) provides foreign governments blanket immunity from most U.S.-tried lawsuits, carving out exceptions only in a few narrow circumstances.

https://www.newsweek.com/china-class-ac ... 19-1498400

It won't go anywhere but maybe if the rest of the world joined in?

Good news, thanks.

We can bombard china with lawsuits from all over the globe.
send a legal tsunami to them.

Yep, if nothing else, it sends a message. Better than the world sitting back and poo pooing any action which China will obviously see as support for their evil commie regime.

[sprintcyclist]

Someone please tell me...what will be a plaintiffs cause of action...….

I don't even know what your question means.

My life has changed since this chinese virus erupted

[billy the kid]

Someone please tell me...what will be a plaintiffs cause of action...….

I don't even know what your question means.

My life has changed since this chinese virus erupted

A cause of action is the commencing basis of a law suit.
EG...if someone owes you money say for a debt...you might sue for work done and materials provided...
If you sold something to somebody and they didn't pay, you would sue for goods sold and delivered.....
(ie the amount owing would be the value of the work done and materials provided...or the
value of the goods sold and delivered by you...)
If you sue for say damages...you have to specify the reason for which you suffered damages...
eg damages due to negligence...
You then have to prove that the defendant was negligent..and such negligence caused you a monetary loss.....
That's about as simple as I can put it....
If a business went broke because of the virus...a plaintiff would find it hard to prove that China was to blame
if the government where the business is located caused the business to close...
This then brings us to another legal area called "remoteness of damage"
In other words a sequence of events has caused a monetary loss....how do you prove that a particular
act, at the commencement of that sequence of events actually caused your monetary loss.....
The reasoning could be considered to be too remote...and you would lose......

[Black Orchid]

Any country who has suffered mass death rates due to the virus and owes China a debt should have it abolished.

That makes a payout moot lol

Oh and Freydenberg should be dragged out and publicly lynched if he approves any Chinese buyouts of any Aussie vulnerable businesses during and after this.

[sprintcyclist]

Any country who has suffered mass death rates due to the virus and owes China a debt should have it abolished.

That makes a payout moot lol

Oh and Freydenberg should be dragged out and publicly lynched if he approves any Chinese buyouts of any Aussie vulnerable businesses during and after this.

Yeap.

Whip him bad