China-European Union Investment Relationships: Towards a New Leadership in Global Investment Governance?

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Based on original research, and bringing together expert contributors, this book provides a critical analysis of the current law and policy between the EU and China, both internally and internationally. Covering key topics on the subject, this book draws together diverse perspectives into a single collection, and is an invaluable tool for both scholars and practitioners of trade and investment law, as well as human rights and environmental law and policy. FrontMatter Contents Contributors Abbreviations Foreword 1. Toward a comprehensive EU-China investment agreement PART I Drivers and issues of china-eu investment relationships 2. Negotiating an uncertain world: economic and political dimensions of the comprehensive agreement 3. The competence to conclude the EU’s new generation of free trade agreements: lessons from Opinio 4. EU-China economic relations: interactions and barriers 5. The potential role of sustainability impact assessment in the EU-China BIT Negotiations PART II China-eu: towards innovation in rule-making? 6. FTZs: can they initiate a new round of reforms in china? 7. Refining the expropriation clause: what role for proportionality? 8. Investor nationality and the definition of investment: policy options to limit the practice of ‘ 9. Emerging regulatory issues for financial services in the new generation of FTAs 10. OBOR in the context of China-EU FDI and China’s evolving economic diplomacy 11. Investment related provisions of EVFTA: implications for Vietnam’s policy reforms 12. Toward an EU-Taiwan bilateral investment treaty: a roadmap PART III From investor-state arbitration to a permanent investment court? 13. How much of a court? The EU investmen 14. The inclusion of investment court system into the EU-China CAI: innovations, prospects and prob 15. The appellate option: promises and pitfalls