Force Majeure

Ming Pao's Beijing correspondent:-

(In translation) Author Yan Lianke has written Ding Village Dream, a novel about AIDS village in China.  It was denounced by the authorities.  The publisher then refuses to pay Yan the agreed fees on grounds of force majeure.  The litigation is still ongoing.  It is difficult for the court to determine whether political intervention is force majeure.

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But why is a ban not a force majeure?  Because the ban is hardly unexpected?  Or the Nanny is no longer superior?