The judgement found that the Chinese Communist Party was liable for $24 billion in damages related to its hoarding of medical supplies during the pandemic.
A Missouri judge has found China’s communist leadership liable in a multi-billion dollar case over the regime’s hoarding of medical supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The judgement found that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was liable for $24 billion in damages to Missouri for exacerbating the pandemic by obstructing American access to medical supplies.
“This is a landmark victory for Missouri and the United States in the fight to hold China accountable for unleashing COVID-19 on the world,” said Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey in a statement.
The State of Missouri brought the case against China, its communist leadership, and several subordinate departments and institutions including the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where some intelligence leaders believe that the COVID-19 virus originated.
District Judge Stephen Limbaugh rendered the decision by default after officials from the CCP did not appear to plead their side of the case, a common outcome in cases dealing with foreign entities.
The judgement took particular care to underscore the CCP’s role in obfuscating information about the virus early on during the initial outbreak in China, as well as the regime’s efforts to hoard personal protective equipment (PPE), causing shortages in the United States.
The case found that “China engaged in a campaign to suppress information about the existence, scope, and then human-to-human transmissibility, of COVID-19,” according to the judgement.
“China’s pattern of actions strongly suggests that it had knowledge of the existence and human-to-human transmission of the COVID-19 virus as early as September 2019 … [and] engaged in a deliberate campaign to suppress information about the COVID-19 pandemic in order to support its campaign to hoard PPE from Missouri and an unsuspecting world.”
The Epoch Times reported in early 2020 that CCP officials knew about the outbreak in 2019 but had deployed the regime’s vast censorship apparatus to suppress the spread of information related to the virus.
