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According to Vivian Mao, partner at Dezan Shira & Associates, if specific circumstances such as epidemics, diseases and plagues have been included in the force majeure clauses under executed contracts, the coronavirus can easily be identified as a force majeure event According to Lijun Cao, partner at Zhong Lun Law Firm, in China, force majeure clauses of commercial contracts rarely list epidemics as an example of a force majeure event, and that each case will be examined based on its own merits in accordance with the relevant provisions of PRC contract law According to Cao, where parties have set out specific requirements for the use of such certificates in the force majeure clause of their commercial contracts, for example, by specifying a particular issuing authority or the necessary contents, the certificates can be used only when these requirements are satisfied
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