No. Under Chinese laws, it is invalid to serve foreign judgments by mail/e-mail/fax to litigants in China. Such service will be regarded as a procedural defect, resulting in a substantial obstacle for applications of enforcing foreign judgments in China.
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In the view of Chinese courts, when a foreign judgment is not properly served upon the litigant in China, its appeal rights were not reasonably guaranteed, which would constitute a dismissal or refusal ground for judgment enforcement under Chinese laws.
More cases can be found in an earlier post ‘Do Foreign Judgments Need to be Served to Litigants in China?’.
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