How did a misfit personal injury law firm end up advising the Trump White House on China policy?

“Revoking Chinese sovereign immunity would set a dangerous precedent, affording China or other countries an excuse to suspend America’s own sovereign immunity under the principle of negative reciprocity. It thus could make the United States more vulnerable to lawsuits from people in other countries over the consequences of U.S. government action,” said Rachel Esplin Odell, a research fellow in the East Asia program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
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