'Yes' to the force majeure question, as Chinese courts would say in disputes arising from contractual performance affected by COVID-19-related control measures.
It examines the indicator 'Protecting Minority Investors' in the World Bank Group's Doing Business Report 2020, measuring the strength of Chinese legal protection of minority investors.
The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak in Wuhan becomes the litmus test of China's legal and regulatory efforts to control infectious in the post-SARS crisis era.
In China, recent years have witnessed an increasing number of Internet-related disputes, which renders the issue of electronic evidence unavoidable in Chinese courts.