Decoding Chinese Bilateral Investment Treaties

Shen Wei

doi:10.1017/9781108867146

This is a major work investigating China's bilateral investment treaties (BITs) regime through various approaches including textual analysis, case study, comparative study and empirical study. This book tries to unveil some of the puzzles in Chinese BITs. The general consensus is that the evolution of China's BIT regime has its underlying logic, which follows an investment liberalization trend and fits China's changing role from a key capital-importing state to a major capital-exporting state. A similar trend is evident in Chinese BIT-making and BIT policy. This book investigates these theoretical assumptions and looks into some of the loopholes in Chinese BITs.

‘This book is highly recommended, providing enough detail, comparative analysis, and wide-ranging coverage to be useful for practitioners negotiating BITs or free trade agreement chapters with China …’

Marcia Don Harpaz Source: The China Quarterly

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1 - Current Landscape and Puzzling Issues
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2 - China’s Foreign Investment Law in the Past Four Decades
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3 - Substantive Protection Provisions in Chinese BITs
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4 - Nondiscriminatory Standards in China’s BITs
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5 - Expropriation in Local and Global Contexts
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6 - How Are Chinese BITs Interpreted? Jurisprudential Review of Treaty Interpretative Tools in Chinese BIT-based Arbitration Cases
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7 - Parallel Proceedings under Chinese BITs
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8 - Transitional Clauses in Transition and the Black Hole in Chinese BIT Law
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9 - Evolutionary Path of China’s BIT Law in the Return of the State Paradigm: A Statistical and Textual Approach
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10 - Who Makes Chinese BITs? An Empirical Investigation
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11 - By Way of Conclusion: Chinese BIT Law and Practice in the Jungle
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Bibliography
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Contents

Decoding Chinese Bilateral Investment Treaties
pp i-ii

Decoding Chinese Bilateral Investment Treaties - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

Figures
pp viii-ix

Tables
pp x-xi

Acknowledgments
pp xii-xii

Abbreviations
pp xiii-xvi

1 - Current Landscape and Puzzling Issues
pp 1-20

2 - China’s Foreign Investment Law in the Past Four Decades
pp 21-49

3 - Substantive Protection Provisions in Chinese BITs
pp 50-84

4 - Nondiscriminatory Standards in China’s BITs
pp 85-114

5 - Expropriation in Local and Global Contexts
pp 115-143

6 - How Are Chinese BITs Interpreted? Jurisprudential Review of Treaty Interpretative Tools in Chinese BIT-based Arbitration Cases
pp 144-181

7 - Parallel Proceedings under Chinese BITs
pp 182-207

8 - Transitional Clauses in Transition and the Black Hole in Chinese BIT Law
pp 208-253

9 - Evolutionary Path of China’s BIT Law in the Return of the State Paradigm: A Statistical and Textual Approach
pp 254-299

10 - Who Makes Chinese BITs? An Empirical Investigation
pp 300-323

11 - By Way of Conclusion: Chinese BIT Law and Practice in the Jungle
pp 324-332

Bibliography
pp 333-352

Index
pp 353-354

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