The RCEP and its investment rules: Learning from past Chinese FTAs

China’s free trade agreements (FTAs) reveal malleability as the most striking feature. The paper analyzes the following questions: what is the trend of China’s fta approach to investment concerning malleability? Is China a rule follower, shaker or maker? How may China approach the Regional Comprehen...

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Main Author: WANG, Heng
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sol_research-64322024-07-17T07:02:22Z The RCEP and its investment rules: Learning from past Chinese FTAs WANG, Heng China’s free trade agreements (FTAs) reveal malleability as the most striking feature. The paper analyzes the following questions: what is the trend of China’s fta approach to investment concerning malleability? Is China a rule follower, shaker or maker? How may China approach the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) regarding investment? It argues first that the malleability will probably expand from investment protection to investment liberalization. China converges with deep ftas regarding investment protection and may incrementally move to investment liberalization. Second, increased malleability of China’s ftas exists in regulatory autonomy and investor-state dispute settlement. Third, China is likely to be a rule shaker in the short to medium term, and become a rule maker later if challenges are addressed. Its approach may evolve from selective adaption to selective innovation. Finally, the rcep may adopt low-level investment rules and an early harvest approach due to, inter alia, existing agreements and the nature of mega FTA. 2017-10-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4474 info:doi/10.1163/23525207-12340026 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/6432/viewcontent/cjgg_article_p160_pvoa_cc_by_nc.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University RCEP investment China FTAs malleability selective innovation Asian Studies International Trade Law
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topic RCEP
investment
China
FTAs
malleability
selective innovation
Asian Studies
International Trade Law
spellingShingle RCEP
investment
China
FTAs
malleability
selective innovation
Asian Studies
International Trade Law
WANG, Heng
The RCEP and its investment rules: Learning from past Chinese FTAs
description China’s free trade agreements (FTAs) reveal malleability as the most striking feature. The paper analyzes the following questions: what is the trend of China’s fta approach to investment concerning malleability? Is China a rule follower, shaker or maker? How may China approach the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) regarding investment? It argues first that the malleability will probably expand from investment protection to investment liberalization. China converges with deep ftas regarding investment protection and may incrementally move to investment liberalization. Second, increased malleability of China’s ftas exists in regulatory autonomy and investor-state dispute settlement. Third, China is likely to be a rule shaker in the short to medium term, and become a rule maker later if challenges are addressed. Its approach may evolve from selective adaption to selective innovation. Finally, the rcep may adopt low-level investment rules and an early harvest approach due to, inter alia, existing agreements and the nature of mega FTA.
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title The RCEP and its investment rules: Learning from past Chinese FTAs
title_short The RCEP and its investment rules: Learning from past Chinese FTAs
title_full The RCEP and its investment rules: Learning from past Chinese FTAs
title_fullStr The RCEP and its investment rules: Learning from past Chinese FTAs
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publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2017
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4474
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