Beijing is waging lawfare against Americans with a whole-of-nation approach.
Sen. Eric Schmitt, FBI co-deputy director Andrew Bailey, and the state of Missouri are being sued by the 
People’s Government of Wuhan Municipality, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for roughly $50 billion in damages for a lawsuit Schmitt filed against China during the COVID-19 pandemic when he was Missouri’s attorney general.
Schmitt, Bailey, and the state of Missouri are being accused of damaging the reputations of China, Wuhan and the associated research facilities through "malicious vexatious litigation, fabricating enormous disinformation, and spreading stigmatizing and discriminating slanders."
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