Beijing Launches $50 Billion COVID-19 Countersuit Against Missouri, GOP Senator

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) speaks during the second day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on July 16, 2024. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty ImagesChina’s communist regime has sued the state of Missouri and its former attorney general in a Chinese court, in retaliation for a March federal court ruling that awarded Missouri $24 billion in a COVID-19 lawsuit against Beijing.Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) announced China’s lawsuit against him, the state of Missouri, and former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who is now co-deputy FBI director, in a statement on Dec. 16. Schmitt filed the COVID-19 lawsuit against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the Chinese city of Wuhan, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and several other Chinese entities in April 2020 when he was Missouri’s attorney general.