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New China-Russia bilateral investment agreement takes effect: MOFCOM

New China-Russia bilateral investment agreement takes effect: MOFCOM

Adobe Acrobat in 2025:
✅Offering AI Summary
✅Offering AI Assistant
✅Offering AI Suggestions
❌Allowing me to click through the link that I can see in front of me on the friggin PDF

Week in Brussels: Mercosur, Africa, Western Sahara, e-commerce - Borderlex - European trade policy A weekly roundup of EU trade news from Brussels

This week's EU trade policy news you may have missed including:
📌More Mercosur drama in the EP
📌EU-Africa summary
📌Narrow EP vote on Western Sahara
📌Call for stricter measures in e-commerce
borderlex.net/2025/11/28/w...

Duterte stays in custody.

Only for style though.

Challenge: convince Dutch people that this is an essential part of a research university

Please join us for our third PIL Discussion Group seminar on November 20, 2025. Dr @geraldovidigal.bsky.social will deliver a talk entitled ‘Adjudicating over Anarchy: Judicial Remedies, Compliance, and Enforcement in International Law.’ See further here www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Colombia loses WTO frozen fries dispute as compliance panel backs EU - Borderlex - Leading news and analysis on trade policy in Europe A WTO dispute settlement panel upheld the European Union's complaint against Colombia in the long-running legal battle over Colombian anti-dumping duties on EU frozen french fries.

Colombia loses WTO frozen fries dispute as compliance panel backs EU

=> This is the first compliance panel under the alternative WTO appeals mechanism #MPIA

By @chrishorseman.bsky.social

borderlex.net/2025/10/23/c...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

This is a fundamental point that 99% of higher-ed coverage, and 100% of immig coverage, have missed.

1. The Premier of China Li Qiang, when attending a United Nations General Assembly related meeting on 23 September 2025, announced that as a responsible major developing country, China will not seek new special and differential treatment in the current and future WTO negotiations. 2. Against the backdrop of unprecedented challenges facing the multilateral trading system, China made this solemn commitment to safeguard and strengthen this system. This document provides a detailed elaboration on China's position regarding special and differential treatment in the WTO."

7. The recent surge in protectionism and unilateralism, in particular the arbitrary imposition of tariffs by a certain member, has posed unprecedented challenges to the rules-based multilateral trading system. The authority and efficacy of WTO rules are severely tested, and the interests of the vast number of developing members are seriously undermined. As a responsible major developing country and a staunch supporter of the multilateral trading system, China's decision represents a solemn commitment as well as concrete action by China to safeguard the rules-based multilateral trading system with the WTO at its core. This decision will help deliver development-oriented outcomes for the 14th WTO Ministerial Conference to be held in Cameroon in March 2026 and contribute to substantial progress in WTO reform. It will also contribute to the better implementation of the Global Development Initiative and the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 8. This decision does not affect China's status as a developing member in the WTO, nor its rights to special and differential treatment provisions in existing WTO agreements, including agreed solutions with other members in current negotiations. This decision is applicable solely within the framework of the WTO and does not constitute any precedent or have any impact on the status and treatment of China as a developing country in any other international organization or international treaty to which China is a member or signatory. 9. China has always been a member of the Global South and will always be a part of the developing world. China will, as always, practice true multilateralism, support the rules-based multilateral trading system, actively participate in the WTO reform process, and firmly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of developing members, with a view to better bridging the North-South development gap, improving global economic governance and building an open world economy.

WT/GC/274, China's position paper regarding special and differential treatment in the @wto.org - 24 September 2025

“Jimmy Wales rebuilt the library of Alexandria using nothing more than nerds’ need to correct one another”

Thanks! It does sound weird though!

I mean, it seems to be working for the fish...

Academic BSK, how would you cite an article in the British Yearbook of International Law 2021, when there is still no physical version? I went with "forthcoming", but in 2025 it just sounds sloppy (on my part...). Any alternatives? Are we just DOIing references now?

Closing LIEI 52(3), Davide Genini examines fiscal instruments developed after the invasion of Ukraine for EU joint borrowing, arguing that unified fiscal capacity, which would produce a quantum leap in European integration, nonetheless remains exceptional. kluwerlawonline.com/journalartic...

I guess one question that helps is "Would I have to actually do research and reflection to write this part or is this just ideas I have material and thoughts on but did not put in the PhD due to word limit/fear of the jury?" In the affirmative, adding it should be possible.

I did that, but I suspect the answer is still "yes". My advice to everyone else is "Publish something as close to the PhD as you can get away with".

In LIEI 52(3), Arianna Andreangeli examines how the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act applies to algorithms that determine prices offered to consumers, arguing that price differentiation algorithms may prejudice the EU internal market and breach EU competition law. kluwerlawonline.com/journalartic...

In LIEI 52(3), Mira Burri, María Vásquez Callo-Müller and Anja Mesmer map and analyse the novel phenomenon of Digital Economic Agreements, focusing exclusively on digital trade and establishing dedicated regulatory frameworks for the data-driven economy. kluwerlawonline.com/journalartic...

And of course updated map

Fisheries subsidies – Trade β Blog Posts about Fisheries subsidies written by Peter Ungphakorn

Peter's full analysis of the issue is here: tradebetablog.wordpress.com/tag/fisherie...

The WTO Fisheries Subsidies Agreement, the WTO's first environmental agreement, is now in force! To ensure it works, all large WTO Members must ratify it. Here's @coppetainpu.bsky.social's helpful visual of countries that still have not yet ratified (Brazil, Kenya, Tonga & Vietnam ratified today!).

🎉 The @WTO #FisheriesSubsidies Agreement is now in force–a big step to curb subsidies threatening #SustDev.

But the work isn’t over yet. It’s crucial to implement the agreement & conclude additional rules to #StopFundingOverfishing.

🔗 www.iisd.org/articles/sta...

China Green Leap Outward — Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab A new China Low Carbon Technology FDI Database

1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering.

www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

LIEI 52(3) is out! In the editorial, Johanna Aleria Lorenzo examines the alleged 'mission creep' at the International Monetary Fund, examining how the IMF's leadership, faced with the evolving complexity of global financial issues, has been fulfilling its mandate. kluwerlawonline.com/journalartic...

Tomorrow our new LLM students start. Today I prioritized:

❌️Ensuring that the Introduction slides provide perfect and fully updated practical information

✅️Turning the bland pop culture quiz into a quiz about 17th Century Amsterdam, the VOC, Grotius, Spinoza, and where students can visit this stuff.