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This volume explores the three tracks of China's investment policy and strategy: bilateral agreements, regional agreements, and global initiatives. Its overarching topic is whether these three tracks compete with or complement one another - a question of profound importance for China's political and economic future and world investment governance.

ABSTRACT
This article focuses on the interaction and relationship between Special Economic Zones (SEZs) as facets of unilateral economic law, international investment law, and the investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) system in a four-fold manner. It initially explains the role of international investment agreements in protecting foreign investments in these zones. Then, it classifies the public or private nature of such zones and goes on to examine related claims through past case law, to determine how modern SEZs must be created to reduce host State liability. Whilst doing so, it provides important suggestions to improve the domestic and international success of SEZs by reducing costs associated with it. In this manner, this article endeavours to highlight the need for a balance in public policy between the rights of host States and foreign investors to ensure that SEZs continue to attract significant amounts of foreign investment. It also stresses on understanding transnational foreign investment rules and the implication of the previously concluded investor–ISDS proceedings so that host States can ensure better regulation of foreign direct investment in these areas.

Introduction / Julien Chaisse and Jedrzej Gorski -- One belt one road ("OBOR") roadmaps : the legal and policy frameworks / Donald J. Lewis and Diana Moise -- The political economy of OBOR and the global economic center of gravity / Usman W. Chohan -- The OBOR global geopolitical drive : the Chinese access security strategy / Francisco Jose Leandro -- It is not the end of history : the financing institutions of the belt and road initiative and the Bretton Woods system / Maria Adele Carrai -- Northern sea route : an alternative transport corridor within China's belt and road initiative / Vasilii Erokhin and Gao Tianming -- The effect of the "belt and road initiative" on along countries' employment / LU Yue, JIA Yingqi and TU Xinquan -- Challenges and possible responses of the Eurasian Economic Union to the belt and road initiative / Alexander Mikhaylenko -- What is one belt one road? a surplus recycling mechanism approach / Usman W. Chohan -- The international investment agreement network under the "belt and road" initiative / Anna Chuwen Dai -- Paving the silk road bit by bit : an analysis of investment protection for Cchinese infrastructure projects under the belt & road / Initiative / LAI Huaxia and Gabriel M. Lentner -- The role of Chinese state-owned investors and OBOR-related investments in europe : the implication of the China-EU bit / YIN Wei -- National security review of Chinese foreign direct investment ('FDI') into the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf ('GCC') : challenges and opportunities / Bashar H. Malkawi and Joel Slawotsky -- A domestic national controls a foreign investor in investment arbitration : in light of China's negative lists / ZHANG Anran -- "Unimpeded trade" in Central Asia : a trade facilitation challenge / Joanne Waters -- One belt, one road initiative into a new regional trade agreement : implication to the WTO dispute settlement system / Sungjin Kang -- BRI initiative : a new model of development aid? / Tymoteusz Chajdas -- Turning doors : piracy, technology and maritime security along the maritime silk road / Helen Tung -- Infrastructure investments : port, rail, and international economic rules / Karlok Carlos Li and Julien Chaisse -- Development banks as environmental governance actors : the AIIB's power to promote green growth / Flavia Marisi -- Stakes and prospects of the right to free, prior & informed consent in 'one belt one road' projects in the context of transnational -- Investment law and arbitration / Anna Aseeva and YIP Ka Lok -- Central and eastern Europe, group 16+1 and one belt one road : the case of 2016 Sino-Polish comprehensive strategic partnership / Jedrzej Gorski -- Some considerations on the civil, commercial and investment dispute settlement mechanisms between China and the other belt and road countries / Zhu Weidong -- International commercial mediation, an opportunity for OBOR / Giovanni Matteucci -- Energy dispute settlement and the one belt one road initiative ('OBOR') / MA Sai -- The energy charter treaty and central Asia : setting an international standard for energy-related disputes / Maria Bun -- Central asian investment arbitration and OBOR : learning from the current investment climate / Mariel Dimsey -- China's maritime silk road and the future of African arbitration / Aweis Osman