International Governance and the Rule of Law in China under the Belt and Road Initiative

Evaluates the challenges and changes that the Belt and Road Initiative brings to China in international law and governance.

This book will appeal to readers interested in Chinese law and policy, China studies, global development and international law. It focuses on how Chinese law relates to international law under the Belt and Road Initiative, mainly in trade, finance, investments, the environment, outer space, competition and dispute resolution.This edited volume aims at examining China's role in the field of international governance and the rule of law under the Belt and Road Initiative from a holistic manner. It seeks alternative analytical frameworks that not only take into account legal ideologies and legal ideals, but also local demand and socio-political circumstances, to explain and understand China's legal interactions with countries along the Road, so that more useful insights can be produced in predicting and analysing China's as well as other emerging Asian countries' legal future. Authors from Germany, Korea, Singapore, Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have contributed to this edited volume, which produces academic dialogues and conducts intellectual exchanges in specific sub-themes.