{"id":2411244,"date":"2025-03-07T23:05:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T04:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missouri-wins-24-billion-judgment-against-china-for-unleashing-covid-19-on-the-world-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T23:06:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T04:06:04","slug":"missouri-wins-24-billion-judgment-against-china-for-unleashing-covid-19-on-the-world-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missouri-wins-24-billion-judgment-against-china-for-unleashing-covid-19-on-the-world-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri wins $24 billion judgment against China for \u2018unleashing COVID-19 on the world\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmissouri-wins-24-billion-judgment-against-china-for-unleashing-covid-19-on-the-world-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2411244&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Missouri\u200d Attorney General Andrew Bailey has achieved a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">important\u200c legal victory<\/a> \u2063by winning a $24 billion judgment against China regarding its\u2062 role in the \u2063COVID-19 pandemic.This lawsuit, which targeted the\u2063 People\u2019s republic of China, the Wuhan institute \u2062of Virology,\u200c the Chinese \u2064Academy\u2064 of Sciences, and the National Health Commission,\u200d accuses them of suppressing critical \u2063data about the virus&#8217;s human-to-human transmission. \u2063Judge Stephen Limbaugh&#8217;s summary judgment revealed that China was aware of the virus&#8217;s transmissibility as early\u200d as September 2019 but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/archbishop-cordileone-i-had-conversations-with-pro-abortion-pelosi-about-holy-communion\/\" title=\"Archbishop Cordileone: I Had \u2018Conversations\u2019 With Pro-Abortion Pelosi About Holy Communion\">publicly denied<\/a> its \u200cexistence until the end of December\u200d 2019. The judgment also described China&#8217;s actions in hoarding personal protective equipment during \u2063the\u200c early \u2063stages of the pandemic, asserting that they deliberately misrepresented the situation. Bailey aims to enforce the judgment by seizing Chinese-owned assets in Missouri, including farmland. In \u2064response, \u2063a spokesperson from the Chinese Embassy dismissed the lawsuit as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-biden-officially-a-target-of-house-impeachment-inquiry-after-formal-vote\/\" title=\"President Biden now under House impeachment inquiry following formal vote\">lacking factual basis<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Missouri wins $24 billion judgment against China for &lsquo;unleashing COVID-19 on the world&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2019960\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/missouri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Missouri <\/a>Attorney General Andrew Bailey won a $24 billion judgment against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">China<\/a> for the country&rsquo;s part in exacerbating the spread of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">COVID-19 pandemic<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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,&rdquo; Bailey said in a statement. &ldquo;China refused to show up to court, but that doesn&rsquo;t mean they get away with causing untold suffering and economic devastation. We intend to collect every penny by seizing Chinese-owned assets, including Missouri farmland.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3341504\/judge-doge-save-records-transparency-lawsuit\/\">Judge directs DOGE to save records amid transparency lawsuit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3341296\/justice-department-investigating-high-egg-prices\/\">Justice Department preliminarily investigating high egg prices<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3340295\/judge-legal-questions-usaid-funding-supreme-court-order\/\">Judge sifts through thorny legal questions over USAID funding after Supreme Court order<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The lawsuit named the People&rsquo;s Republic of China, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Chinese Academy of Science, and the National Health Commission of the People&rsquo;s Republic of China as defendants.<\/p>\n<p>The summary judgment from Judge Stephen Limbaugh of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri <a href=\"https:\/\/ago.mo.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/State-of-Missouri-v.-Peoples-Republic-of-China-Judgment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">found<\/a> that China intentionally &ldquo;engaged in a campaign to suppress information about the existence, scope, and then human-to-human transmissibility, of COVID-19.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It revealed that China was made aware of the human-to-human transmission of the virus as early as September 2019. The Chinese Communist Party publicly denied the existence of the COVID-19 virus until Dec. 31, 2019, and denied its ability to transmit between humans until Jan. 20, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Evidence submitted by Missouri, however, demonstrates Missouri&rsquo;s claim that China repeatedly and knowingly misrepresented the existence and human-to-human transmission of the virus for months prior to these admissions,&rdquo; the summary judgment read.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>China was also guilty of hoarding personal protection equipment.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;One of the key ways Defendants hoarded PPE early in the COVID-19 pandemic was by taking monopolistic steps to both nationalize U.S. factories producing PPE in China and prohibit the export of PPE from U.S. factories in China to the United States,&rdquo; the summary judgment read.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-and-environment\/3261510\/us-catch-china-race-critical-minerals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>HOW THE US CAN CATCH CHINA IN CRITICAL MINERALS RACE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the pandemic, Chinese and American officials have disputed the notion that COVID-19 originated in a lab. But in January, the CIA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/national-security\/3300820\/cia-admits-covid-19-most-likely-originated-from-chinese-lab-leak\/\">switched its view to conclude<\/a> that COVID-19 most likely originated from a lab.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/07\/us\/missouri-china-covid-judgment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"New York Times\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>  the lawsuit has &ldquo;no basis in fact.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2019960\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2019960\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri secures $24 billion judgment against China for COVID-19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2542,"featured_media":2411245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/China-xi-jinping-hhy3.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4501,3774,8584],"class_list":["post-2411244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-china","tag-covid-19","tag-missouri"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/China-xi-jinping-hhy3.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2411244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411248,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411244\/revisions\/2411248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2411245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}