중국상대 집단소송

우한 폐렴 발생 사실을 두 달 동안 은폐하여 각국이 대비할 시간도 없이 전세계적으로 창궐하게 만든 주범인 중국을 상대로 집단 소송이 시작되었다. 중국이 비난받는 이유는 우한 바이러스의 발원지라서이기 보다는 초기에 바이러스 감염 발생을 숨겨 조기 진압할 기회를 놓쳤고, 사람간의 전파는 일어나지 않는다는 허위 정보를 흘린 것, 중국내에서 확진자 수와 사망자 수를 조작하여 정확한 감염의 진행 과정을 알 수 없게 한 것, 세계 각국에서 마스크, 방호복 등을 대규모로 매집하여 바이러스가 다른 국가들에까지 확산되었을 때는 의료물자 부족으로 사태가 더 악화되도록 한 것 등을 들 수 있다.

한국의 우한 폐렴 피해자들도 중국을 상대로 집단 소송을 시작하고, 국내 중국 자산에 대한 가압류부터 시작하는 것이 좋을 것이다.

이런 일을 다시 겪지 않으려면 세계적으로 인류를 위협하는 중국 공산당 해체 운동에 들어갈 필요가 있다.

• 中 정권, 의료용품 글로벌 재고 장악…세계 각국 물자부족 심화 에포크타임스 2020년 4월 9일
• EXCLUSIVE: Navarro says China hid virus from world, is hoarding PPE for profit Fox News 2020.04.19

Navarro: China went from net exporter of protective equipment to net importer

중국 상대 소송을 위한 미국의 입법 움직임

• [속보] “중국에 코로나19 책임 물어야” 美의원들 법안 발의 서울신문 2020.04.21

• Sen. Blackburn introduces 'Stop COVID Act' to make China legally liable for virus spread wcyb April 21st 2020
• McSally & Blackburn to Introduce the Stop COVID Act to Hold China Accountable for the Spread of the Coronavirus April 20, 2020

미국 공화당(GOP)의 하원의원 Dan Crenshaw (텍사스 주)와 상원의원 Tom Cotton(아컨사스 주)은 미국인 코로나 피해자들이 중국 정부를 상대로 미국 법정에 소송을 제기할 수 있도록 입법을 하겠다고 나섰다.

• GOP lawmakers introduce bill to allow Americans to sue China over coronavirus Fox News 2020.04.18

Two Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate, respectively, have introduced legislation that would allow Americans to sue the Chinese government for damages caused by the coronavirus pandemic -- which U.S. officials have blamed on the Chinese.

The bill, introduced by Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, in the House and Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., in the Senate, would allow Americans to sue the communist country in federal court by amending the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

“By silencing doctors and journalists who tried to warn the world about the coronavirus, the Chinese Communist Party allowed the virus to spread quickly around the globe. Their decision to cover up the virus led to thousands of needless deaths and untold economic harm. It’s only appropriate that we hold the Chinese government accountable for the damage it has caused,” Cotton said in a statement.

The legislation is modeled after the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, and seeks “to provide a civil action against a foreign state for deliberate concealment or distortion of information with respect to an international public health emergency.”

“There’s an increasing amount of evidence that shows they are culpable,” Crenshaw said on “Fox & Friends" on Saturday. “So what can we do about that? Well, when Americans are wronged. We sue somebody -- so let’s let Americans sue the Chinese Government.”

• 中 정권에 팬데믹 손배소 가능하게, 美 의원 ‘주권면책 예외 적용’ 법안 발의 에포크타임스 2020년 4월 6일

미국서 중국 상대로 손해배상 줄소송

국제법상 ‘주권면책’으로 실효 어려워

공화당 의원 “주권면책 예외로” 발의

중국은 자신들도 피해자라 주장

• China plays victim card as lawsuits over its handling of COVID-19 grow Fox News 2020.04.20
• 美 ‘집단소송’ 움직임에…中 “우린 코로나19 가해자 아닌 피해자” 서울신문 2020-04-20

中 외교부 “미국의 적은 中 아닌 바이러스”

“금융위기 때 미국 책임 지라는 요구 있었나”

소송 현황 해설

• New York couple suing Chinese government: Coronavirus' 'impact has been pretty big' Fox News 2020-04-26
• “32,032,000,000,000,000원” 지금까지 전 세계 각국에서 중국에 청구한 손해배상금액 NTD TV 2020-04-24
• Missouri AG says he's suing China over coronavirus because 'responsibility lies directly at their feet' Fox News 2020-04-22
• 전세계 1만명 중국에 7천조 '코로나 배상' 소송 제기 뉴스1 2020-04-20
• “中은 코로나19 피해 배상하라”…전세계 1만명, 7천조원대 집단소송 제기 뉴시스 2020-04-20

영국 싱크탱크 "G7이 중국에 6조3000억달러 배상 청구해야"

독일 빌트지 "감소한 독일 GDP 1490억 유로 등 배상하라"

• Lawmakers call for China to face accountability as suspicion grows that coronavirus leaked from lab Fox News 2020.04.16

"Since January, I've said it seems to be highly coincidental that this very contagious virus originated just a few hundred yards or maybe a couple miles from laboratories where the Chinese Communist Party researches coronaviruses," Cotton said on “Hannity,” adding that the latest information suggests that the Chinese Communist Party is "responsible for every single death, every job lost, every retirement nest egg lost from this coronavirus, and Xi Jinping and his Chinese Communist apparatchiks must be made to pay the price. If that turns out to be true.”
Cotton also demanded “consequences” for the Chinese Communist Party “if it turns out that Chinese negligence and then Chinese corruption and treachery was responsible for unleashing this pandemic on the world.”

• Sen. Hawley: Let coronavirus victims sue Chinese Communist Party Fox News 2020.04.15

Hawley bill would allow Americans affected by virus to sue China: 'The kind of accountability we need' Fox News 2020.04.16

각국에서 중국을 상대로 소송을 벌일 기세이고, 중국이 배상에 응하지 않더라도 해당 국가에 있는 중국 자산이 몰수될 수 있다. 이 중에 가장 치명적인 것은 미국의 소송이다. 미국에서는 이미 중국 상대의 천문학적인 배상 소송이 제기되어 있고, 만약에 승소한다면 중국이 보유하고 있는 미국 국채는 무용지물이 될 수 있다. 중국이 가지고 있는 미국에 대한 채권이 압류 당할 수 있을 것이다.

• [이춘근의 국제정치 138회] ② 장교들 식량 배급도 제한하는 북한 🇰🇵+ 🇨🇳중국을 향한 세계의 소송 이춘근TV 2020. 4. 12.

인도의 경우

• India Drags China To International Court For COVID-19 War Great Game India -April 4, 2020
• PIL To Be Filed In Supreme Court Of India For Coronavirus Epidemic Against China, Investigation Already Going On The Role Of WHO, ICJ Can Also Be Approached inventiva -April 5, 2020

Inventiva plans to file PIL in the supreme court of India through lawyer Oorja Bhogal after the lockdown is over to request Honorable judges of the supreme court for demanding legal damages of 1 Trillion USD be deposited in the reserve bank of India within 60 days by Chinese authorities and government of PRC for the damages and loss of business, economy and financial losses suffered by the Indian citizens and its government under the effect of coronavirus pandemic, failing to comply with this order will result in a complete ban on the sale of any Chinese products, their import and sales in India for life.

영국 Henry Jackson Society의 예측

영국의 Henry Jackson Society는 중국의 COVID-19 대응 방식의 국제보건규약 위반에 대한 전세계의 소송은 G7 국가들로부터만도 최소 3.2조 파운드(£3.2 trillion, 대략 4조 달러)에 달할 것으로 예측했다.

• “中 정부, 팬데믹 은폐한 책임 4조 달러 물어야 한다” 英 싱크탱크 에포크타임스 2020년 4월 7일
• China should be sued for $6.5 (£3.2) trillion for coronavirus damages says top UK think tank Brisbane Times April 5, 2020
• UK Think-Tank Seeks Global Solidarity to Sue China for $6.5 Trillion for 'Covering up Coronavirus' News18 APRIL 6, 2020.

• Coronavirus Compensation? Assessing China's Potential Culpability and Avenues of Legal Response. - Henry Jackson Society 5th April 2020

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.

The report claims that the Chinese government’s early handling of the disease and failure to adequately report information to the WHO breached Articles Six and Seven of the International Health Regulations [IHRs], a Treaty to which China is a signatory and legally obliged to uphold. These breaches allowed the outbreak to rapidly spread outside Wuhan, its place of origin.

In particular, our research has discovered that the Chinese government:

• Failed to disclose data that would have revealed evidence of human-to-human transmission for a period of up to three weeks from being aware of it, in breach of Articles six and seven of the IHRs.
  
• Provided the WHO with erroneous information about the number of infections between 2 January 2020 and 11 January 2020, in breach of Articles Six and Seven of the IHRs.
  
• Failed to proscribe avoidable vectors of lethal zoonotic (animal-originated) viral infection, instead actively promoting the massive proliferation of dangerous viral host species for human consumption in breach of Article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.
  
• Allowed 5 million people (roughly equivalent to the size of The San Francisco Metropolitan Area, CA or Greater Boston, MA in the USA, and roughly five times the size of a city the size of Birmingham, UK) to leave Wuhan before imposing the lockdown on 23 January 2020 despite knowledge of human-to-human transmission.

• Henry Jackson Society의 보고서 전문 pdf 파일

CORONAVIRUS COMPENSATION? ASSESSING CHINA’S POTENTIAL CULPABILITY AND AVENUES OF LEGAL RESPONSE April 2020

BY MATTHEW HENDERSON, DR ALAN MENDOZA, DR ANDREW FOXALL, JAMES ROGERS, AND SAM ARMSTRONG

미국의 실제 소송 사례

• 美보수단체, 中정부에 20조 달러 손해배상 소송 “미국 시민 죽음 초래” 에포크타임스 2020년 4월 3일
• Lawsuit in Dallas federal court accuses Chinese government of creating coronavirus as ‘biological weapon’ Dallas Morning News Mar 19, 2020

Freedom Watch is seeking $20 trillion in damages from China for harming Americans, but the Communist superpower is unlikely to pay.

• Buzz Photos v. People’s Republic of China [Class Action Complaint, No. 3:20-cv-00656-K (N. D. Tex., March 17, 2020)]
• Nutbag Lawyer Larry Klayman Files $20 Trillion Suit Against China For Coronavirus ‘Bioweapon’ Above the Law Mar 19, 2020

• Class-action suit seeks to bill China for coronavirus fallout: 'We want the court to make them pay' Fox News 2020.03.25

• Class Action Filed Against China Over COVID-19 Outbreak law.com 3월 13, 2020
• Class-action lawsuit filed in South Florida blames China for coronavirus, seeks billions in damages wptv Mar 14, 2020

2 Palm Beach County residents listed as plaintiffs

• Coronavirus: Boca law firm sues Chinese government over its role in pandemic palm beach post Mar 13, 2020

• [세뇌탈출] 938탄 조뱅썰전 - 우한코로나: 제3차 세계대전 -1부 (20200320) Bangmo뱅모 2020.03.20

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