This article introduces an essay by Yukihiro Hasegawa published in Hanada, discussing the worldwide pursuit of responsibility and compensation claims against the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government over the coronavirus pandemic. It examines resolutions in the U.S. Congress, Senator Josh Hawley’s actions, private lawsuits, and the crisis facing the Chinese model.

2020-05-15
The amount of damages China will be confronted with will probably become an astronomical figure, at least in the tens of trillions of dollars, or thousands of trillions of yen.
Amid such circumstances, will Chinese President Xi Jinping be able to survive?
I see it as “impossible.”
The following is from an essay by Mr. Yukihiro Hasegawa, published in this month’s issue of Hanada, a monthly magazine that is required reading not only for the Japanese people but for people all over the world, under the title “The ‘Compensation Hell’ Awaiting China.”
Why do television media such as NHK not report the following matters at all?
This proves how deeply they are under Chinese operations, and it proves that China is now working furiously on Japanese television media, political operators of opposition parties such as the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, their sympathizers such as the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, and so-called citizens’ groups.
As for NHK, to which I refer, there is in the first place the closeness shown by the fact that CCTV is located inside NHK headquarters.
In particular, as for Arima of Watch 9, his comments up to now clearly prove that China has been giving him intense guidance.
At the same time, this essay contains, in particular, one hundred percent of the 5W1H that television media have completely lost.
In other words, this essay is a genuine essay.
On the other hand, newspapers such as Asahi Shimbun and television media such as NHK are reporting precisely fake news.
For whose sake?
It goes without saying that it is for China.
Emphases in the text other than headings are mine.
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A Scene of Hell Worse than the Coronavirus
As the infection of the new coronavirus spreads, fierce criticism of China is rising throughout the world.
Lawsuits against the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government are expected to be filed all over the world from now on.
The amount of damages China will be confronted with will probably become an astronomical figure, at least in the tens of trillions of dollars, or thousands of trillions of yen.
Amid such circumstances, will Chinese President Xi Jinping be able to survive?
I see it as “impossible.”
The world is not so forgiving as to allow the very person responsible for bringing about this great catastrophe to remain seated in power.
It is not only Xi.
After the epidemic has settled down, what the Chinese Communist Party will face should be a “scene of hell worse than the new coronavirus,” containing within it the danger of the party’s collapse.
First, there is the United States.
In both houses of Congress, resolutions have been submitted calling for an international investigation to uncover the truth about the Chinese Communist Party’s concealment of facts and the course of the spread of infection, and for compensation to victims.
The outline of the resolution submitted to the Senate on March 24 by Senator Josh Hawley, Republican, appears to be as follows.
The Senate calls for a resolution to implement the following five items.

1. To condemn the Chinese government’s decision to conceal the outbreak of the new coronavirus and the spread of infection within the country during the first several weeks after the outbreak.
2. To analyze and evaluate the fact that the Chinese government’s decision to conceal the outbreak of the disease and the spread of infection caused the infection to spread to the Indo-Pacific region, Europe, and the rest of the world.
3. To make clear that the Chinese government bears accountability for the impact that its decision to conceal the outbreak of the disease and the spread of infection had on the lives and livelihoods of people throughout the world.
4. To conduct an international investigation by public health officials of the United States and other countries that suffered damage into how the Chinese government’s response caused the pandemic, the worldwide spread, of the new coronavirus.
5. To call on the international community to (A) quantify the damage that the Chinese government’s response concerning the new coronavirus caused to the health and economic welfare of the people of the United States and other countries, and (B) devise a mechanism to make the Chinese government compensate each country for the damage it suffered.
   China’s Acts Are First-Degree Murder
   What poured oil on the flames of Senator Hawley’s anger was the March 12 tweet by Zhao Lijian, spokesman of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, saying, “It might have been the U.S. military that brought the virus to Wuhan.”
   In response to this, U.S. President Donald Trump fought back by calling it the “Chinese virus,” while Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also called it the “Wuhan virus.”
   This is only a foretaste.
   In the United States, private lawsuits are also occurring one after another.
   One such lawsuit, filed in the state of Nevada, had as plaintiffs five businesses: a restaurant and a flower shop in Las Vegas, two real estate companies, and a cardiopulmonary resuscitation training company, seeking damages from the Chinese government.
   The plaintiffs’ representative is Robert Eglet, a highly capable attorney known throughout the United States.
   He has a record of serving as representative for victims of the mass shooting murder that occurred in Las Vegas in October 2017, and winning a settlement totaling 800 million dollars, about 86.4 billion yen, in a lawsuit against hotel management companies.
   Mr. Eglet says that “the five plaintiff companies are representatives of tens of millions of small and medium-sized enterprises that have suffered damage from the new coronavirus, and those enterprises can also add their names as plaintiffs.”
   The final amount of damages is expected to reach several trillion dollars, or several hundred trillion yen.
   In Texas, attorney Larry Klayman, a former prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice, and others filed a class-action lawsuit against the Chinese government and the Chinese military, seeking 20 trillion dollars, or about 2,160 trillion yen, in compensation.
   Similar lawsuits are also taking place in Florida.
   According to the April 5 edition of the American newspaper the New York Post, regarding the matter in which Chinese authorities prohibited U.S.-affiliated medical supply companies operating in China from exporting masks and other medical supplies to the United States, Jenna Ellis, senior legal adviser to the Trump reelection campaign, said that “such actions are considered first-degree murder,” and made clear that the Trump administration was considering legal measures against China.
   In the United States, the country is truly about to begin pursuing the responsibility of the Chinese government and the Communist Party.
   This article continues.