... States, a political campaign against China is gaining momentum in connection with the COVID-19 epidemic. The Trump administration has taken a tough stance against Beijing... ... it has not made any concrete moves. Such moves are most likely to include economic sanctions against individual citizens of the PRC who are associated with government... ... the United States
. On May 4, a voluminous bill, the
Law on Justice for Victims of Coronavirus, appeared in the Senate
.
Andrey Kortunov:
The Battle of “Coronavirus...
... Department of State
The United States Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Prisons
The U.S. authorities demand to release the American citizens jailed abroad (
https://www.state.gov/secretary-michael-r-pompeo-at-a-pres…/
). They are promising to impose sanctions against “guilty governments”, should their compatriots die due to the coronavirus.
Meanwhile, the situation with COVID-19 in the American correctional facilities keeps deteriorating rapidly (
https://www.bop.gov/coronavirus/
). Many inmates are infected, some of them have deceased. There is hardly any medical assistance for the convicted, neither there is coronavirus ...
... exemptions will have no effect without significant systemic changes introduced at least for the period of the pandemic
The COVID-19 epidemic has sparked a discussion about the possible suspension of economic sanctions. UN Secretary-General António Guterres is among those calling for such a step to be taken.
Indeed, the virus is now ... ... extraterritorial in nature, meaning that many companies from third states avoid cooperating with the country as well.
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Coronavirus: A New Bug or Feature of World Politics?
The sanctions combine several problems and bring them into sharp focus. Iranian ...
