A new Chinese economic law order?

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

7-2021

Abstract

Building from its success in taking on the United States and Europe in the WTO, China followed the United States and European Union in turning to bilateral and plurilateral trade and investment agreements. Yet, it did so with a new vision of placing itself at the center of the transnational legal ordering of trade, finance, and investment in Asia and beyond. Through webs of finance, trade, and investment initiatives involving memoranda of understanding, contracts, and trade and investment treaties, China is incrementally developing a new, decentralized model of economic governance. This model combines private and public international law in transnational legal ordering imbued with Chinese characteristics. It builds from existing Western models, but it repurposes them. It uses law to help manage the risks to its outbound investment and trade. In the process, China could create a vast, Sino-centric, regional order in which the Chinese state plays the nodal role.

Keywords

International trade law, China

Discipline

Asian Studies | International Trade Law

Publication

Emerging powers and the world trading system: The past and future of international economic law

Editor

G. Shaffer

First Page

222

Last Page

268

ISBN

9781108861342

Identifier

10.1017/9781108861342.008

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

City or Country

Cambridge

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108861342.008

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