#MakeChinaPay For the #CoronavirusPandemic
by Gordon G. Chang • June 4, 2021 at 5:00 am
Even if the coronavirus did not start out as a biological weapon, the world now has enough information to conclude that China's regime turned it into one.
Proponents of sovereign immunity make valid points, but there are overriding factors. Crimes against humanity are so heinous that no one should be barred from seeking compensation.
Plaintiffs, at least as a technical matter, should be able to overcome the sovereign immunity defense: The Communist Party of China, which controls the Chinese central government, is not a sovereign.
As of this moment, 3,579,000 people have died from COVID-19, including 596,000 Americans. The Chinese regime committed mass murder.... Mass murderers do not deserve sovereign immunity protection.
It is absolutely essential that the Biden administration disabuse Chinese leaders of the notion that they can spread the next pathogen, or whatever else they are planning, without a cost.
Let us remember what is at stake. In China's laboratories, researchers are now cooking up far more deadly pathogens than SARS-CoV-2, including those that would leave the Chinese immune but sicken or kill everyone else.
For the first time in history, one country has attacked -- at the same time and in one audacious move -- all the other ones.
China committed that horrific crime by taking steps, in December 2019 and January of last year, to deliberately spread COVID-19 beyond its borders.
The international community must now impose the most severe costs on the Chinese regime to, among other things, establish deterrence. Why? China's regime committed the crime of this century and may well be planning another horrific act.
