Recently, a group of eminent Chinese/US economists and legal scholars issued a thought-provoking Joint Statement on “US – China Trade Relations: A Way Forward”. However, the Joint Statement does not provide practical solutions to the real issues in the bilateral negotiations. Moreover, by...

Energy governance at the international level is fraught with difficulties due to the “competition among purposes” between different bodies of international law. In this paper, we extend the thesis to argue that the same tension may be found in domestic energy governance. Drawing from...

One major issue facing the world trading system today is how to deal with the challenge of China's state capitalism. Many commentators believe that the existing WTO rules are insufficient and, thus new rules are needed. This book challenges this conventional wisdom. Through meticulous studies...