An EU-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) can stimulate new labor protections and collective labor union cooperation in Chinese and EU workplaces, benefitting individual workers. Not only will it bring possible substantive improvements provided by the...

In May 2017, Xi Jinping called the Latin American countries [LAC] “a natural extension of the Maritime Silk Road…” Recent years of China's increasing trade and investment has affected industries and jobs, and thus has also given rise to labor issues, as Chinese firms tend to hire Chinese...

It is time for European Union and Chinese leaders to build on the existing EU-China 2020 Strategic Agenda for Cooperation, quickly conclude on-going negotiations on their EU-China Bilateral Investment Treaty, and begin substantive negotiations on an EU-China Free Trade Agreement? China is now...