Recently, the U.S. state of Mississippi issued subpoenas to several Chinese Communist Party ministries and the Wuhan Virus Institute, claiming responsibility for the spread of the epidemic and filing huge claims. Concerns have been raised about how the Xi Jinping administration will respond to the lawsuit.
U.S. State of Mississippi Issues Subpoenas to Zhongnanhai
According to local Mississippi media outlet WLBT, the state’s Southern District Court issued subpoenas to the Communist Party of China and several Chinese Communist Party ministries on Dec. 9 last year, as well as to the Wuhan Virus Institute, from which there is evidence that the virus was transmitted.
Those who received subpoenas included the People’s Republic of China, the Communist Party of China (CPC), the CPC National Health Commission, the CPC Ministry of Emergency Management, the CPC Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Hubei Provincial Government and the Wuhan Municipal Government. According to court records, the court also issued subpoenas to the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
According to the law, these entities have 21 days to respond to the subpoenas, and if they do not respond, the district court will notify them that “judgment will be entered against you by default.
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch said in a statement this week, “Mississippi families and businesses deserve financial compensation because of the malicious and dangerous (spreading of the epidemic) actions of the Chinese (Communist Party of China).” “The lawsuit is currently in the judicial process and we look forward to justice for the people of Mississippi.”
Missouri files huge claim against CCP
In addition to Mississippi, the state of Missouri is also aggressively pursuing claims against the Chinese Communist Party.
According to Fox News, Missouri was the first state to file a lawsuit against the Chinese Communist Party last April, seeking liability for the global spread of the outbreak and compensation for the “tremendous loss of life, human suffering and economic disruption” caused by the virus.
The lawsuit states that “the pandemic resulted from the egregious deception, concealment, malfeasance and inaction of the Chinese Communist authorities.”
“In the critical weeks of the initial outbreak, the CCP authorities deceived the public, suppressed critical information, arrested whistleblowers, denied human-to-human transmission despite mounting evidence, (CCP) sabotaged critical medical research, exposed millions of people to the virus, and even stockpiled medical personal protective equipment, leading to an otherwise non-occurring and global pandemic that could have been prevented.”
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office said, “We are currently researching alternative methods of serving subpoenas and taking action on this case as soon as possible.” “The attorney general’s office remains committed to holding the Chinese (Communist Party) government accountable for the outbreak.”
U.S. Attorney: Holding the CCP accountable is feasible
After a major outbreak of the CCP virus in Wuhan, China, in early 2020, CCP authorities falsely claimed that the virus was not human-to-human until the eve of Wuhan’s closure on Jan. 23, when officials changed their story and admitted that the virus was human-to-human, but by then the outbreak had spread, spreading from Wuhan to the world.
Last March, at least seven lawsuits were launched against the Chinese Communist government in Florida, Texas, Nevada and California.
Four Florida residents, including Logan Ertz, and a sports training center, filed a complaint in U.S. federal court in Miami last March 13, suing the governments of the People’s Republic of China, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Emergency Management, the Hubei Provincial Government, and the Wuhan Municipal Government for billions of dollars.
This is the first civil claim against the Chinese government for concealing the outbreak of the virus since the outbreak. In an interview with the Voice of America, attorney Moore said the class-action lawsuit is not against the Chinese people, but that someone needs to be held accountable for the havoc the world is suffering.
Moore said the case complies with the U.S. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which allows a plaintiff to sue a foreign independent country that affects him as a U.S. citizen.
U.S. lawmakers: Chinese Communist Party’s compensation can take many forms
The Trump administration has made it clear that it holds the Chinese Communist Party responsible for the spread of the epidemic around the world. But the Biden administration has made no further moves toward holding the CCP accountable since taking office.
In early April, senior Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Banks (R-OH) called on the Biden administration to take action to hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for the outbreak of the virus, bringing the Communist Party to the International Court of Justice in Shanghai and demanding that the Communist Party pay huge financial losses.
Banks sent a letter to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken asking him why he has not yet “committed to punishing China for what it has done in the epidemic.
In an interview on the English-language Epoch Times Thought Leadership program last year, Banks said that reparations from the Chinese Communist Party could take many forms, including forcing Beijing to forgive some or all of the U.S. government’s obligations to the U.S. Treasury, imposing punitive tariffs on Chinese goods, and requiring the Chinese Communist Party to withdraw its investments from the U.S. state retirement pension fund.
Global hunt for CCP’s Xi Jinping sends alarm
As of May 3, more than 152 million people have been infected with the epidemic worldwide, with more than 3.2 million deaths, and the epidemic continues to rise. Many countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Italy, Spain and Brazil, have formed a consensus to blame the Chinese Communist Party for the epidemic.
Facing a global siege, Xi Jinping is “under a lot of pressure”. He warned the Politburo Standing Committee in April last year that “we should adhere to bottom-line thinking and be prepared to deal with changes in the external environment for a longer period of time.”
Writing in Free Asia, U.S.-based current affairs commentator Chen Baokong previously said that Xi was strongly hinting that the Party and the country could be destroyed after this big trouble. In fact, there is no possibility of losing the country, only the Party.
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