Free Markets, State Involvement, and the WTO: Chinese State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in the Ring

Abstract

The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), created in 1992 and directed by Professor Brigid Laffan, aims to develop inter-disciplinary and comparative research and to promote work on the major issues facing the process of integration and European society. The Centre is home to a large post-doctoral programme and hosts major research programmes and projects, and a range of working groups and ad hoc initiatives. The research agenda is organised around a set of core themes and is continuously evolving, reflecting the changing agenda of European integration and the expanding membership of the European Union.

Containing Chinese State-Owned Enterprises?: The Role of Deep Trade Agreements

“…The rapid rise of China and the uniqueness of its economic structure have been largely unforeseen by those negotiating multilateral trade rules (Wu, 2016;Mavroidis and Janow, 2017). As a result, Chinese specificities -the outsized presence of the state in the Chinese economy and the management of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), with their explicit or implicit ties to the government-largely fall outside the scope of the current jurisdiction of the World Trade Organization (WTO).…”