China and International Dispute Resolution in the Context of the 'Belt and Road Initiative'

358 Pages·2021·6.104 MB·English

by  Wenhua Shan (editor), Sheng Zhang (editor), Jinyuan Su (editor)

China and International
Dispute Resolution in the
Context of the
“Belt and Road Initiative”
Edited by Wenhua Shan,
Sheng Zhang and Jinyuan Su

CHINA AND INTERNATIONAL
DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN THE
‘
CONTEXT OF THE BELT AND ROAD
’
INITIATIVE
Written by eminent international judges, scholars and practitioners, this
bookoffersatimelystudyofChina’sroleininternationaldisputeresolution
inthecontextoftheconstructionofthe‘BeltandRoadInitiative’(BRI).Itis
the first comprehensive assessment of China’s policy and practice in
international dispute resolution, providing in-depth analysis of the law
and practice in the fields of international trade, commerce, investment
and international law of the sea, asthey relate to BRI dispute resolution.
This book will beanindispensablereading forscholars andpractitioners
with an interest in China and international dispute resolution. It also
constitutes an invaluable reference for anyone interested in the changing
international law and order, in which China is playing an increasingly
significantrole,particularlythroughtheBRIconstruction.
wenhua shan (PhD, Trinity College, Cambridge) is Ministry of
Education Yangtze River Chair Professor of International Economic
Law and the founding Dean of the School of Law at Xi’an Jiaotong
University,PRChina.HeisalsothefoundingDirectoroftheSilkRoad
InstituteforInteractionalandComparativeLaw(SRIICL).Hehastaught
as Professor of International Law at Oxford Brookes University and
UNSWSydney,andhasbeenaSeniorFellowoftheLauterpachtCentre
forInternationalLawattheUniversityofCambridge,AssistantPresident,
Xi’anJiaotongUniversity,andDeputyDirector-GeneraloftheJudicialCase
AcademyattheSupremePeople’sCourt,PRChina.Hehaspublishedover
adozenbooksininternationalandcomparativelawwithleadingEnglish
andChinesepublishers,includingCUPandOUP,andnumerousarticlesin
journalssuchastheEuropeanJournalofInternationalLawandAmerican
Journal of Comparative Law. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of The
Chinese Journalof ComparativeLaw and founding General Editor of the
“ChinaandInternationalEconomicLawSeries”and“SilkRoadStudiesin
InternationalEconomicLaw”.AsConciliatoroftheInternationalCentrefor
the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), Expert Member of the
International Commercial Expert Committee of the Supreme People’s
CourtofChina,ExecutivePresidentoftheChinaInternationalInvestment
Arbitration Forum (CIIAF) and Arbitrator of the China International
Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) among others,
ShanhaspractisedinternationalandChineselawssince1992.
shengzhangisAssociateProfessoratXi’anJiaotongUniversitySchool
of Law. He is Deputy Secretary-General of the China International
Investment Arbitration Forum and an editor of The Chinese Journal of
ComparativeLaw.Hemainlyfocusesoninternationalinvestmentlawand
comparativelaw.HewasavisitingscholarattheLauterpachtCentrefor
International Law and the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative and
International Private Law. He has published articles in the European
JournalofInternationalLaw,JournalofInternationalDisputeSettlement,
TheChineseJournalofComparativeLawandColumbiaFDIPerspectives.
jinyuan su is Professor of International Law at Xi’an Jiaotong
UniversitySchoolofLaw.HewasanErinJ.C.ArsenaultFellow(2014–-
2015)attheMcGillInstituteofAirandSpaceLawandavisitingresearch
fellow (2009–2010) at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law,
University of Cambridge. Dr Su’s research interests lie in outer space
law, the law of the sea and international aviation law. His articles are
publishedininternationalpeer-reviewedjournalssuchasChineseJournal
ofInternationalLaw,International&ComparativeLawQuarterly,Asian
Journal of International Law, Ocean Development & International Law
andTheInternationalJournalofMarineandCoastalLaw.
C H I N A A N D
I N T E R N A T I O N A L
D I S P U T E R E S O L U T I O N I N
T H E C O N T E X T O F T H E
‘
B E L T A N D R O A D
’
I N I T I A T I V E
Edited by
WENHUA SHAN
Xi’anJiaotongUniversity
SHENG ZHANG
Xi’anJiaotongUniversity
JINYUAN SU
Xi’anJiaotongUniversity
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CONTENTS
ListofFigures pagevii
ListofTables viii
ListofContributors ix
ListofAbbreviations xv
Introduction 1
wenhua shan, jinyuan su and sheng zhang
PART I China,BRIandInternationalDispute
Resolution 9
1 ChinaandtheDevelopmentofanInternationalDispute
ResolutionMechanismfortheBeltandRoad
Construction 11
james crawford ac
2 OneBelt,OneRoad,OneClauseforDispute
Resolution? 23
michael hwang, david holloway and
lim si cheng
PART II China,BRIandInternationalTradeDispute
Resolution 49
3 TradeandInvestmentAdjudicationInvolving‘SilkRoad
Projects’:LegalMethodologyChallenges 51
ernst-ulrich petersmann
4 WhyDon’tWeHaveaWITO?G20,TPPandWTO 78
guohua yang
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PART III China,BRIandInvestmentDispute
Resolution 97
5 ICSIDandtheEvolutionofISDS 99
meg kinnear
6 TacklingPoliticalRisksthroughTreatizationalongtheBelt
andRoad:AMinilateralSolution 113
wei shen
7 MultilateralReformofInvestor–StateDisputeResolution
Mechanism:ABalancebetweenPublicLegitimacy
ManagementandPrivateEfficiencyRefinement 149
peng wang
8 EnergyDisputeResolutionalongtheBeltandRoad:Should
ChinaAccedetotheEnergyCharterTreaty? 185
anatole boute
PART IV China,BRIandResolutionofMaritime
Disputes 207
9 TheBeltandRoadInitiativeandthePotentialforDispute
SettlementundertheUNConventionontheLawof
theSea 209
natalie klein
10 PeacefulResolutionofMaritimeDisputesandtheUN
ConventionontheLawoftheSea 233
keyuan zou
11 UnsaidRulesofUNCLOS:EssentialElementsforIts
ProperInterpretation? 251
bingbing jia
12 ChinaandInternationalDisputeSettlement:Implications
oftheSouthChinaSeaArbitration 280
jiangyu wang
Index 317
FIGURES
5.1 ICSIDcaseload–casesregistered–31December2018 page106
6.1 GrowthofChina’soutboundinvestment(1990–2017) 121
6.2 RuleofLawIndex(WJP) 124
6.3 RegulatoryQuality 124
6.4 DoingBusinessIndex 125
6.5 RespondentStates(Regions)inICSIDCasesby2017 125
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TABLES
2.1 Hurdlesofenforcementinselectivecivillawcountriesinthe
BRI page34
7.1 ProposalsforchangestotheISDSmechanism 162
7.2 ThestructureofMIDR 170
7.3 Selectedaspectsofreformproposals 172
10.1 ContractingpartiestotheLOSCineastAsiaandtheirmaritime
claims 247
10.2 BilateralmaritimeagreementsineastAsia 248
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