Matthias Vanhullebusch

Regional cooperation and free trade agreements in Asia

Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors Part 1 Chinas Role Within Regional Trade A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats? IPR Provisions in Chinas Free Trade Agreements Qingjiang Kong Retrospect and Prospect of the Cross-Straits Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) between Mainland China and Taiwan Kuei-Jung Ni Bolstering Taiwans Regional Operations Centres through Liberalization of Trade Across the Taiwan Strait Richard N. Watanabe and Robert Irish Chinas FTA Practice in Europe. New Features and Impacts Delei Peng Part 2 China and the Transpacific Partnership Selected Issues in TPP Negotiation and Implications for China Henry Gao Look before You Leap. The Case for Chinas Tripartite Strategy Towards the Trans-Pacific Strategic Partnership (TPP) Ming Du Part 3 Free Trade Between China, Japan and Korea Tripartite Free Trade Agreement among China, Korea, and Japan. A Step Towards Economic Integration in Northeast Asia? Yong-Shik Lee and Kwangkug Kim Composing an Investment Chapter of the Korea-China-Japan FTA Won-Mog Choi Industry Specific FTAs. Korean FTAs Example Liyu Han On the Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanism in the China-Japan-Korea Free Trade Agreement. Lessons from Existing FTAs and Investment Treaties Yasuhei Taniguchi and Tomoko Ishikawa Part 4 Future Perspectives on Asian Regional Trade Searching for Human Rights. Free Trade Agreements in Asia Matthias Vanhullebusch Shanghai Free Trade Pilot Zone. The Model for Future China? Jiaxiang Hu Promoting Intra-Regional Trade in South Asia through Trade Facilitation Measures under the Auspices of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Md. Rizwanul Islam A Study on the Cooperation in Trade Remedies among the BRICS Countries Shengxing Yu The US, East Asian FTAs, and China Jean-Marc F. Blanchard and Wei Liang Playing a Long Game in Their Free Trade Regime between China and the EU. A Reflection on the Evolution of the MFN Clause Kim Van der Borght Conclusion Regional Trade Agreements in Context Jianfu Chen Index

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