"Yet by 2020, twenty-five years after the WTO's creation, it was the United States that has become the great disrupter - disenchanted with the rules' constraints, including on its ability to create new rules. It was the United States that flouted WTO rules in the name of "national security" and...

Global Value Chains (GVCs) rely on division of labor within and beyond borders to minimize production costs and build regional and global value chains. Since starting its economic reform four decades ago, China has been highly successful in integrating its economy into regional and global value...

The U.S.-China trade relationship poses a frontal challenge to the multilateral trading system, and it has broad repercussions for international law. This article addresses three dimensions for conceptualizing the interface between the U.S. and Chinese systems through trade law: (i) economic;...

China is incrementally developing a new, decentralized model of trade governance through a web of finance, trade, and investment initiatives involving memorandum of understanding, contracts, and trade and investment treaties, supported by an indigenous innovation policy that is transnational in...

This article builds from original fieldwork to show what lies behind China’s remarkably successful use of international trade law to take on the United States and Europe. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is unique in China’s international relations as it is the only forum where China, with...