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Unpacking the Black Box of China's State Capitalism

Du, Ming

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Much ink has been splashed on the ideological, conceptual, and practical challenges that China’s state capitalism has posed to global trade rules. There is a growing perception that the current international trade rules are neither conceptually coherent nor practically effective in tackling China’s state capitalism. This perception has not only led to the emergence of new trade rules in regional trade agreements, but also culminated in the US-China trade war, only further aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic. This Article contributes to the debate of what trade rules may be needed to counteract China’s state capitalism by unpacking the black box of China’s state capitalism. Based on an analysis of the nature of China’s state capitalism, this Article provides a preliminary evaluation of current trade rules taken to counteract China’s state capitalism, in particular the new rules in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, and explain why they are unlikely to be successful.

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Du, M. (2023). Unpacking the Black Box of China's State Capitalism. German law journal, 24(1), 125-150. https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2023.2

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 18, 2023
Online Publication Date Mar 22, 2023
Publication Date 2023-02
Deposit Date Jan 19, 2023
Publicly Available Date Mar 23, 2023
Journal German Law Journal
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 24
Issue 1
Pages 125-150
DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2023.2

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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the German Law Journal





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