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Author, Law Professor, Directer of UC Irvine Center on Globalization, Law and Society (GLAS)
Oct 17, 2019 10 tweets 3 min read
Soumaya, here is a thread regarding our article on China's broader ambitions with the #beltandroad initiative in terms of the trade legal order. The article is here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…. It shows why the trade war will not "be easy to win." @ChadBown @rodrikdani @howserob The paper explains China’s growing web of finance, trade, and investment initiatives involving memorandum of understandings, contracts, and trade and investment treaties through which it is creating a Sino-centric order in which the Chinese state plays a nodal role.