China in the International Economic Order: New Directions and Changing Paradigms

Cambridge University Press, 4/16/2015
EAN 9781107062016, ISBN10: 1107062012

Hardcover, 344 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm
Language: English

The enormous economic power of the People's Republic of China makes it one of the most important actors in the international system. Since China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001, all fields of international economic law have been impacted by greater Chinese participation. Now, just over one decade later, the question remains as to whether China's unique characteristics make its engagement fundamentally different from that of other players. In this volume, well-known scholars from outside China consider the country's approach to international economic law. In addition to the usual foci of trade and investment, the authors also consider monetary law, finance, competition law, and intellectual property. What emerges is a rare portrait of China's strategy across the full spectrum of international economic activity.

Introduction
China in the international economic order
new directions and changing paradigms Colin B. Picker and Lisa Toohey
Part I. Perspectives on China in the International Order
1. Revamping the China model for the post-global financial crisis era
the emerging post-Washington, post-Beijing consensus Randall Peerenboom
2. Regarding China
images of China in the international economic order Lisa Toohey
3. China and international tribunals
onward from the WTO Marcia Don Harpaz
4. China's legal cultural relationship to international economic law
multiple and conflicting paradigms Colin B. Picker
Part II. Trade
5. From the Doha round to the China round
China's growing role in WTO negotiations Henry Gao
6. China's implementation of WTO decisions Timothy Webster
7. The emerging rules on state capitalism and their implications for China's use of SOEs Junji Nakagawa
8. Standards as a means to technological leadership? China's ICT standards in the context of the international economic order Shin-yi Peng
Part III. Financial and Monetary
9. China's negotiation of the international economic legal order Ross P. Buckley and Weihuan Zhou
10. Is the rise of Chinese state capital a regulatory game changer? The example of inward investment capital to Australia Justin O'Brien, George Gilligan and Jonathan Greenacre
11. Contesting the liberal imaginary? China's role in the international monetary system Julian Gruin
12. China, economic Taoism and development
different paradigms, different outcomes Xuezhu Bai and Nicholas Morris
Part IV. Competition, IP and Investment
13. Chinese companies and outbound investment – the balance between domestic and international concerns Vivienne Bath
14. Mergers with conditions in China
caution, control or industrial policy? Deborah Healey
15. Geo-politics, China and investor-state arbitration Leon E. Trakman
16. China, intellectual property rights and the WTO
challenging but not a challenge to the existing legal order Bryan Mercurio.