THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CHINESE STATE IN THE CASE OF COVID-19 TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

Abstract

International legislation provides guidance for States to prevent problems, especially sanitary ones, within their territories and beyond, with the intention of maintaining harmony and the collective interest of nations. For this reason, it was proposed in this work to discuss the international responsibility of the Chinese State in the pandemic context generated by COVID-19, with verification of existing international law literature and the identification of opinions of experts in the field of law on China's responsibility in current pandemic. For the feasibility of the study, bibliographic research with a qualitative approach was used as a methodology, using scientific productions such as magazines, books and articles published with reference to the subject under study. Access to data referring to the opinions of experts through formal news and the rare articles already published with this theme made it possible to understand that China has at least partial responsibility for the development of the pandemic due to non-compliance with international legislation, but, with the debate still unfinished, there may be a possibility of adopting an exclusionary of illegality in the prosecution of the country.