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More than four months after Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sought to hold China and the Chinese Communist Party accountable for the COVID-19 pandemic, the lawsuit remains stalled in federal court. Neither the Chinese government, the Communist Party nor the officials named in the lawsuit have filed a response. Missouri served the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing with summonses on July 17. Under U.S. law, a foreign state or agency has 60 days to respond after they’re served. That means the defendants’ deadline to respond could be as soon as late September. But because U.S. law generally grants foreign states...
