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Sino-U.S. Investment Treaty: A Little BIT For You and Me

Photo “Shaking Hands” by Nicola Corboy (Some rights reserved) In May, 2011, the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue will be resumed in Washington. Daniel Michaeli, research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank and publisher, opines in the Huffington … Continue reading

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Why STAs are Different From EPAs/FTAs and Influencing IPR norms is Preferable to Being Influenced

Professor Peter K. Yu , one of the leading scholars on Intellectual Property Rights in China (director of the Intellectual Property Law Center at Drake University School of Law), informed me that he just wrote a paper called ‘Sino Trade … Continue reading

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Coming Up: China – Costa Rica Free Trade Agreement

After Chile and Peru, Costa Rica is the third Latin American country that is to negociate a free trade agreement with China. Read the AFP article here. Free trade agreements can play an important role in the protection and enforcement … Continue reading

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