Chinese State Entities Argue They Have ‘Sovereign Immunity’ in U.S. Courts
11th May 2016
Some Chinese state-owned entities, backed by the key government agency that oversees major state industrial companies, have adopted a controversial defense when they face U.S. lawsuits: You can’t touch us because we enjoy sovereign immunity.
That’s a one-trick pony; once an entity claims ‘sovereign immunity’, even if the claim is successful, it can be barred from further doing business in that jurisdiction, as happens when diplomats are sent home for breaking host-country law.