China's Compliance in Global Affairs - Trade, Arms Control, Environmental Protection, Human Rights

China and the WTO into the Next Decade: Probing the Past and Present as a Path to Understand the Future

“…In addition, it delves into the opportunities created for businesses and the obstacles faced by companies seeking to exploit the policy changes China would be making (Mok, 2002;Agarwal and Wu, 2004;Chang et al, 2005). Furthermore, it speculates on the likelihood that China will fulfil its commitments (Chan, 2004;Liew, 2005;Mertha and Zeng, 2005). A smaller number of works within this group examine the implications of China's WTO membership on developing and developing countries, select industrial sectors within and without China, and so on " A nascent group researches "China as target," but the number of works in this group is too small at present to warrant discussion.…”

“…These works consider inter alia how learning, socialisation mechanisms, and dialogue/discourse have encouraged China to act as a responsible member of such institutions, as well as to embrace a status quo as opposed to revisionist or revolutionary stance (Hempson-Jones, 2005;Chan, 2006;Kent, 2007). A related group of studies, prepared by economists, political scientists and legal specialists, among others, incorporate analyses of the China-WTO dynamic into wider-ranging explorations that look at WTOdeveloping world or WTO-BRIC histories, stances, and behaviours concerning agricultural negotiations, particular WTO agreements like TRIPS, and the WTO dispute settlement process (Narlikar and Tussie, 2004;Odell, 2006;Bird, 2006;Crump and Maswood, 2007;Thomas and Trachtman, 2009).…”

China in Darfur: humanitarian rule-maker or rule-taker?

“…While China's rapid rise to global-power status has become common knowledge, previous studies on China's international behaviour have rather been focused on whether a rising China would comply with the norms and rules devised and espoused by the West. 95 Despite their consistent arguments that China has been compliant with the international system of rules in many issue-areas, they do not suggest that China can make rules for the rest of the world. Until very recently students of International Relations might thus afford to pay scant attention to the specifics of Chinese preferences, because as a rule-taker the country was largely in conformity with Western preferences over many global issues, especially in the 'high politics' of regional security and arms control.…”

China engages global health governance: Processes and dilemmas

“…The majority of these studies focus on its participation in United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions (Kim 1999), arms control (Johnston 1996, Swaine and Tellis 2000, Frieman 2004), human rights (Kent 1999), and international finance and trade (Economy and Oksenberg 1999, Pearson 2000, G. Chan 2004, G. Chan 2006. There are also studies which examine the impact of international actors working within China on environmental issues (Economy 2004, Morton 2005.…”