Investment Treaty Reform in Asia: Rule Makers, Takers, or Breakers?
- Wednesday, June 16, 2021
- 8:00–10:30 a.m.
- This is a virtual event
Investment Treaty Reform in Asia: Rule Makers, Takers, or Breakers?
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
8:00 AM US Eastern Daylight Time
The 21st century has seen Asia emerge as the key global hub for international economic agreements. From the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) to the recent China-EU Comprehensive Agreement on Investment and China’s wide-ranging Belt and Road Initiative, increasingly great swathes of the global economy are being governed by agreements based in Asia. This panel will discuss whether the new agreements tend to reinforce already existing paradigms established elsewhere, or represent a departure. Are Asian approaches to rulemaking emerging? Are some Asian states emerging as the makers of new international norms? Are some willing to break existing rules, whether made in Asia or elsewhere?
Chair: N. Jansen Calamita (CIL)
Prabash Ranjan (South Asia University)
Stefanie Schacherer (CIL)
Heng Wang (University of New South Wales)
Charlie Garnjana-Goonchorn (Thailand Ministry of Foreign Affairs)