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...

The EU's and the US' written submissions in EU – Price Comparison Methodologies, for the first time, elaborated their respective positions on how Article 15 of China's WTO Accession Protocol should be interpreted and applied after fifteen years of China's entry into the WTO on 11 December...

The European Commission has announced that it would issue a proposal to amend the European Union (EU) anti-dumping regulation to tackle the forthcoming expiry of the provision in China's Protocol of Accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) which allows WTO Members to derogate from the WTO...

One of the most longstanding and significant issues in the U.S.-China trade war and international trade regulation in general has been the so-called “forced” technology transfer. To contribute to the ongoing debate over this issue, this article reviews the role of technology transfer in the...

For more than seven decades, the multilateral trading system has played an essential role in promoting international cooperation on trade policymaking and dispute resolution. As the WTO is being pushed toward the verge of irrelevance, it falls upon us, who believe in the utility of the WTO and...

As promised, China brought a WTO dispute against the US and the EU respectively regarding their antidumping laws, which continue to authorise the application of the so-called non-market economy (NME) methodology. This case was initiated one day after the expiry of paragraph 15(a)(ii) of China's...

The article discusses circumvention and anti-circumvention in international trade with a focus on Australia's anti-circumvention mechanism and in particular the first anti-circumvention investigation in Australia. It identifies the major issues relating to circumvention and anti-circumvention in...

This article explores China's use of the international trade system, international investment system and international financial system to promote its domestic economic and sectoral reforms, with a view to analyzing the new directions and changing paradigms associated with China's growing...

Since 1979, China has made tremendous progress in its transformation to a socialist market economy. As part of this process, China's financial system has evolved to one characterised by a high degree of marketization. At the same time, China today faces new challenges to growth and development,...