bilateral investment treaty

The United States and China recently concluded two days of high-level talks as part of the sixth U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (“S&ED” or the “Dialogue”), which took place in Beijing from July 9-10. The most concrete outcome of this year’s S&ED is the commitment by both sides to reach

Continue Reading Recent Developments in China: S&ED, Shanghai FTZ and BIT Negotiations

On July 9, Indonesians went to the polls to vote for the nation’s second directly-elected President.  Neither candidate has conceded, and official results will not be announced until July 22.  However, independent polling and election monitoring organizations point to the loss of Prabowo Subianto, a Suharto-era general, to relative newcomer
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Promising advances have been during the past year in negotiation of a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) between the US and China.  Key objectives of the BIT are to accord certain protections to investors and also to ensure that each party will accord to investors and investments of the other party
Continue Reading Progress Towards a US-China Investment Treaty