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...

FTAs in Asia-Pacific: “Next Generation” of Social Dimension Provisions on Labor?Recent years have brought a proliferation of Free Trade Agreements (“FTA”), bilateral and multilateral, often regional, with even larger ones being negotiated, such as the European Union (“EU”) and United...

The Social Dimension Labor Provision of the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) indeed represents the “Next Generation” in Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and is possibly a “game changer” in the several Asian countries with TPP-side agreements with the U.S. As one of the few countries in the...