The People's Republic of China officially became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on 10 December 2001. Its major commitments under the Protocol on Accession are trade-related. To meet them, systemic reforms in the areas of transparency, uniform application of laws and substantial...

Enthused by China's conversion to the free market system in 1978 and its adoption of Western-style market institutions, the world has spent the last few decades turning a blind eye to China's real “governance” problem: that a shadow Party-State system permeates all branches of the economy....

As the digital economy has grown and data has become a more valuable and critical resource, the collection, use, and sharing of data by companies have come under increasingly intense regulatory scrutiny. The relevance and appropriateness of antitrust and competition laws to deal with data,...

The case between Dexian and Sony is once called “the first Antimonopoly case” in China, since the case happened right before China Antimonopoly Law came into effect and brought certain important legal questions in dispute when the case was going on. Some of those questions now can be solved,...

This paper focuses on one of the most important digital platform sectors—E-commerce—addressing the antitrust enforcement, comparing it with new regulatory approaches, learning from experiences in the US, EU, China, and Japan. E-commerce is shown to have distinct characteristics, as compared...

Contract is one of the great pivots of commercial activity and an intrinsic part of nearly every consumer transaction. Inspired by the discussion amongst western scholars over whether contract law is a practical tool for protecting the consumer, this paper scrutinizes the role of the revised...

Following in the footsteps of the man whose name is associated with the Forty Thieves, and whose immortal words gave him access to the treasure, the twenty-first century's Alibaba found his pot of gold in Chinese consumer with his 'Open Sesame': the protection that Alipay delivers to consumers....