U.S. lawsuits against China point to greater divides ahead
by Mary Sanchez, Tribune Content Agency
Apr 24, 2020
3 minutes
It's the lawsuit heard round the world.
Missouri, in a snit of political bravado awash with economic recklessness, flung a legal threat recently across the hemisphere.
The state sued China, casting a flimsy legal argument to hold the global heavyweight responsible for losses of life and commerce due to COVID-19, which originated in Wuhan.
The lawsuit, along with a handful of similar class action suits filed recently in U.S. federal courts (the just-as-red state of Mississippi is currently lying in wait to
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