Part 1. China's role within regional trade. A rising tide lifts all boats? : IPR Provisions in China's Free Trade Agreements / Qingjiang Kong -- Retrospect and prospect of the cross-straits Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) between Mainland China and Taiwan / Kuei-Jung Ni -- Bolstering Taiwan's regional operations centers through liberalization of trade across the Taiwan Strait / Richard N. Watanabe and Robert Irish -- China's FTA practice in Europe : new features and impacts / Delei Peng -- Part 2. China and the transpacific partnership. Selected issues in TPP negotiation and implications for China / Henry Gao -- Look before you leap : the case for China's tripartite strategy towards the trans-pacific strategic partnership (TPP) / Ming Du -- Part 3. Free trade between China, Japan and Korea. Tripartite free trade agreement among China, Korea and Japan : a step towards economic integration in Northeast Asia? / Yong-Shik Lee and Kwangkug Kim -- Composing an investment chapter of the Korea-China-Japan FTA / Won-Mog Choi -- Industry specific FTAs : Korean FTAs example / Liyu Han -- On the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism in the China-Japan-Korea free trade agreement : lessons from existing FTAs and investment treaties / Yasuhei Taniguchi and Tomoko Ishikawa -- Part 4. Future perspectives on Asian regional trade. Searching for human rights : free trade agreements in Asia / Matthias Vanhullebusch -- Shanghai free trade pilot zone : the model for future China? / Jiaxiang Hu -- Promoting intra-regional trade in South Asia through trade facilitation measures under the auspices of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation / Md. Rizwanul Islam -- A study on the cooperation in trade remedies among the BRICS countries / Shengxing Yu -- The US, East Asian FTAs, and China / Jean-Marc F. Blanchard and Wei Liang -- Playing a long game in their free trade regime between China and the EU : a reflection on the evolution of the MFN clause / Kim Van der Borght
Summary
Regional Coopeartion and FTAs in Asia examines the opportunities and challlenges arising from the proliferation of FTAs in Asia
