{"id":143876,"date":"2026-01-09T15:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143876"},"modified":"2026-01-09T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:59:08","slug":"why-lawsuits-wont-cure-pandemics-financial-ills-between-us-states-and-chinese-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143876","title":{"rendered":"Why lawsuits won\u2019t cure pandemic\u2019s financial ills between US states and Chinese government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn 2025, even as US President Donald Trump sought to stabilise trade ties with Beijing, two Republican-led states were moving in the opposite direction, securing nearly US$50 billion in federal lawsuits for what they say was economic damage caused by China\u2019s deliberate stripping of US hospitals and businesses of essential Covid-19 supplies.<br \/>\nUsing a new reading of the \u201ccommercial activity\u201d exception to a 50-year-old US law that generally blocks lawsuits against foreign governments, a federal&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3339384\/why-lawsuits-wont-cure-pandemics-financial-ills-between-us-states-and-chinese-government?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn 2025, even as US President Donald Trump sought to stabilise trade ties with Beijing, two Republican-led states were moving in the opposite direction,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143876"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}