Good luck with that !
First up, here’s the full report / article from the Henry Jackson who write..”Global lawsuits against China for “patent breaches” of the International Health Regulations over its handling of COVID-19 could run to at least £3.2 trillion from just the nations of the G7, according to a newly released report.”
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Here’s a report in the New Daily analysing the likelihood of anything happening
China should pay more than $6 trillion in compensation to countries affected by coronavirus, according to a conservative British think tank.
Research from the Henry Jackson Society found China breached several of its obligations under the World Health Organisation’s international health regulations.
The report claimed the Chinese government failed to share evidence of human-to-human transmission weeks after becoming aware of it, gave the UN “erroneous” infections data, and allowed five million people to leave Wuhan before locking the city down.
The think tank consequently claims the communist superpower could be liable for the damage caused by the coronavirus, which amounts to roughly £3.2 trillion ($6.42 trillion) for the G7 nations alone.
That figure could “be eclipsed several times over” once other nations are factored in, the report added.
Australia alone could seek damages of up to £29.9 billion ($37 billion), the report said.
“The Chinese Communist Party has learnt no lessons from its failure in the SARS epidemic of 2002-3,” one of the report’s co-authors, Matthew Henderson, said.
“Their repeated blunders, lies and disinformation, from the start of the COVID-19 epidemic, have already had far more deadly consequences.
“How this will translate into practice, time will tell.”
The Society proposed 10 different avenues through which affected countries could theoretically pursue China, including the International Health Regulations.
Legal action highly unlikely
If Australia receiving a near-$30 billion cash injection from its largest trading partner sounds too good to be true, that’s probably because it is.
UNSW law professor Natalie Klein told The New Daily there are several reasons why a payout of that magnitude is unlikely.
Chief among these is that under most international legal systems, China would need to consent to having litigation filed against it before it could be sued.
If China chooses not to consent, which Professor Klein said is the most likely option, there would be no case against it.
“We don’t have an international court system where a state is compelled to appear before the court unless they’ve consented,” she said.
Read the full report at. https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2020/04/07/coronavirus-sue-china/
