Book contents
- Decoding Chinese Bilateral Investment Treaties
- Decoding Chinese Bilateral Investment Treaties
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Current Landscape and Puzzling Issues
- 2 China’s Foreign Investment Law in the Past Four Decades
- 3 Substantive Protection Provisions in Chinese BITs
- 4 Nondiscriminatory Standards in China’s BITs
- 5 Expropriation in Local and Global Contexts
- 6 How Are Chinese BITs Interpreted? Jurisprudential Review of Treaty Interpretative Tools in Chinese BIT-based Arbitration Cases
- 7 Parallel Proceedings under Chinese BITs
- 8 Transitional Clauses in Transition and the Black Hole in Chinese BIT Law
- 9 Evolutionary Path of China’s BIT Law in the Return of the State Paradigm: A Statistical and Textual Approach
- 10 Who Makes Chinese BITs? An Empirical Investigation
- 11 By Way of Conclusion: Chinese BIT Law and Practice in the Jungle
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Current Landscape and Puzzling Issues
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2021
Book contents
- Decoding Chinese Bilateral Investment Treaties
- Decoding Chinese Bilateral Investment Treaties
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Current Landscape and Puzzling Issues
- 2 China’s Foreign Investment Law in the Past Four Decades
- 3 Substantive Protection Provisions in Chinese BITs
- 4 Nondiscriminatory Standards in China’s BITs
- 5 Expropriation in Local and Global Contexts
- 6 How Are Chinese BITs Interpreted? Jurisprudential Review of Treaty Interpretative Tools in Chinese BIT-based Arbitration Cases
- 7 Parallel Proceedings under Chinese BITs
- 8 Transitional Clauses in Transition and the Black Hole in Chinese BIT Law
- 9 Evolutionary Path of China’s BIT Law in the Return of the State Paradigm: A Statistical and Textual Approach
- 10 Who Makes Chinese BITs? An Empirical Investigation
- 11 By Way of Conclusion: Chinese BIT Law and Practice in the Jungle
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The primary purpose of this chapter is to provide a summary of key literature touching on China’s BITs and their evolution, characteristics, application and pitfalls. Based on the literature review, this chapter outlines the key issues that this book undertakes to conceptualize, contextualize and theorize. The importance of these issues concerns the context in which they are explored. This chapter also draws a roadmap of the book by offering an introduction to each chapter.
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- Decoding Chinese Bilateral Investment Treaties , pp. 1 - 20Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021