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The $24 Billion Judgment Against China in Missouri’s COVID Suit

Conflict of Laws

The remaining two defendants, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, are legally separate from the Chinese government but still closely enough connected to qualify as organs and thus as agencies or instrumentalities of a foreign state covered by the FSIA. Although it would require becoming involved in the U.S.

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