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Abstract:
China’s foreign investment legal regime encompasses its domestic laws governing inward and outward investments, investment protection treaties, and the special rules of the Belt and Road Initiative. After more than four decades’ continued effort in building and reforming the regime, it is worth considering whether the regime works as expected – contributing to its five main development goals: building technological capacity; deepening integration into the global economy; promoting green development; protecting security; and participating in global economic governance and rule-making. This presentation offers an evaluation of the contribution of China’s foreign investment legal regime to the achievement of China’s development goals, noting areas of progress and areas of continuing challenge. The starting point for the discussion is the recently published book China’s Foreign Investment Legal Regime: Toward China’s Development Goals (Brill 2023), authored by Yawen Zheng.
Bio:
Dr Yawen Zheng is a postdoctoral fellow of investment law and policy at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore. Her research interests include investment law, energy law, and climate change. She obtained her PhD degree from the University of Edinburgh in 2021, an LLM in international law from the University College London in 2015, and an LLB in 2014 from the Sun Yat-sen University, China. Her monograph China’s Foreign Investment Legal Regime was published by Brill in January 2023, and her other work has appeared in journals including the Journal of World Investment and Trade.
- Speaker
- Dr Yawen Zheng
- Hosted by
- Centre of Commercial Law