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- The Cambridge Handbook of China and International Law
- The Cambridge Handbook of China and International Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Taking Centre Stage in Global Governance and the International Legal Order
- 1 China’s Reform and Opening-Up and Its Move to International Institutions
- 2 The Belt and Road Initiative and the International Legal Order
- 3 The Community of Shared Future for Mankind and International Law
- Part II Interfaces between National and International Law
- Part III Selected Areas of Chinese State Practice
- Part IV International Peace and Security
- Part V Human-Centred International Law
- Part VI The Habitat and the Global Commons
- Part VII International Economic Law
- Part VIII International Dispute Settlement
- Index
2 - The Belt and Road Initiative and the International Legal Order
Why It Happened, What It Does and How, and What It Brings About
from Part I - Taking Centre Stage in Global Governance and the International Legal Order
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2024
- The Cambridge Handbook of China and International Law
- The Cambridge Handbook of China and International Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Taking Centre Stage in Global Governance and the International Legal Order
- 1 China’s Reform and Opening-Up and Its Move to International Institutions
- 2 The Belt and Road Initiative and the International Legal Order
- 3 The Community of Shared Future for Mankind and International Law
- Part II Interfaces between National and International Law
- Part III Selected Areas of Chinese State Practice
- Part IV International Peace and Security
- Part V Human-Centred International Law
- Part VI The Habitat and the Global Commons
- Part VII International Economic Law
- Part VIII International Dispute Settlement
- Index
Summary
This chapter first gives an overview of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), including its background and content. It then examines how major Western powers are responding to the BRI by proposing alternatives, thus illustrating its geopolitical and geo-economic implications. Following this, it deconstructs the legal framework of the BRI and explains the approach with which China is putting the BRI into practice. Finally, it explores what the BRI may bring about in the international legal order and the Chinese legal order. Through the prism of the BRI, this chapter will help appreciation of how China, as it becomes a leading state, exerts influence on the international order, which is experiencing a tremendous transformation.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of China and International Law , pp. 31 - 48Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024