Big League National Security
Josh Hawley Announces Justice for Victims of COVID-19 Act to Hold China Responsible
China would lose its immunity in American courts.
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley announced his intention to bring up the Justice for Victims of COVID-19 Act in the chamber on Tuesday. The legislation would hold China accountable for covering up the nature of the lethal global coronavirus disease, most significantly making the nation’s government liable to claims in the U.S. court system.
The law would create “a private right of action against the Chinese government for any reckless action it took that caused the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, such as its decisions to withhold information and to gag doctors.”
Individuals who were diagnosed with the coronavirus disease could potentially sue the Chinese government for damages in American courts. The legislation has similarities to the 2016 Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, which enabled Americans to sue the Saudi Arabian government for damages related to their role in the 9/11 attacks.
China not only obfuscated the severity of the coronavirus disease, but the nation’s authoritarian communist government went so far as to forcibly silence doctors and medical professionals who identified it as a disease new to nature. The Chinese government initially tried to claim it was merely a renewed outbreak of the 2002 SARS disease, with which it has some similarities.
The legislation would allow American courts to freeze assets owned by Chinese government entities for use as compensation to coronavirus victims.
Hawley, identified by many as a leader of the Republican Party’s populist nationalist wing, slammed China’s deceit on the matter in a press release announcing the legislation.
“There is overwhelming evidence that the Chinese Communist Party’s lies, deceit, and incompetence caused COVID-19 to transform from a local disease outbreak into a global pandemic. We need an international investigation to learn the full extent of the damage the CCP has inflicted on the world and then we need to empower Americans and other victims around the world to recover damages. The CCP unleashed this pandemic. They must be held accountable to their victims.”
The law would commission an international investigation led by the State Department to formally identify China’s malfeasance and lead a global effort to secure compensation from China.
Big League National Security
NEW: Joe Biden Bashes Incoming Trump Administration In Leaked 2016 Call to President of Ukraine
Completely inappropriate.
Joe Biden speaks in critical and partisan terms of the incoming Trump administration in a new leaked call to the President of Ukraine unveiled Wednesday.
In the call, conducted in November 2016 a week after then-candidate Trump’s election victory, Biden bashes the incoming administration to the foreign leader, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. Biden assails the Trump transition team as incompetent, turning down the idea of visiting the country before the January transition before Trump is “fully briefed” on matters related to Ukraine.
In a second call, Biden asks for Poroshenko to describe his conversations with incoming President Trump, going to to speak of Trump in more dismissive terms. He describes Trump as a “dog who caught the car, and who doesn’t know what to do.” Not quite a “dog-faced pony soldier,” but definitely not an appropriate way for an outgoing vice president to describe an incoming president to a foreign leader.
A Ukrainian comedian originally released the calls, suggesting questionable operational security within the conversations of Joe Biden and Poroshenko. Biden has a lengthy history of ethical questions regarding his relationship with Ukraine, including looking the other way as his son Hunter secured an extremely lucrative position at a Ukrainian oil company without any experience whatsoever in the energy industry.
Biden himself would later go on to demand the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating corruption allegations against the younger Biden, a clear conflict of interest Biden merely dismissed when he spoke openly of securing the prosecutor’s firing at a Council on Foreign Relations public event.
This is a totally inappropriate way for a Vice President to speak to a foreign leader, and the public should be concerned about how Biden plans to conduct diplomacy should he be elected President.
-
Tech4 days agoMeet the Alternative to the Drudge Report
-
Violent Left3 days agoBLM Activist Wearing “Justice for Breonna Taylor” T-Shirt Shoots, Kills Three People in Bar Owned by Louisville Ex-Cop
-
Congress4 days agoFLASHBACK: Three Recent Supreme Court Justices Were Confirmed Within 45 Days
-
Campaign 20203 days agoSLEEPY: Joe Biden Campaign Team Pulls Joe from Daily Activities at 8:35AM, Months Before Election
-
Deplorables2 days agoNebraska Small Business Owner Commits Suicide After Being Railroaded With Manslaughter For Defending His Bar From Criminal Rioters
-
Campaign 20203 days agoWATCH: Joe Biden Waves to Absolutely No One As He Disembarks Private Plane in Florida
-
Videos2 days agoSPOOKY: Video Footage Appears to Capture ‘Ghosts’ Running Across Gettysburg Battlefield
-
Congress2 days agoHUGE: Mitt Romney Spokesman Reveals He’s Not an Automatic ‘No’ On SCOTUS Nominee Confirmation
