Uniting for a Cleaner Future
After forming a free trade regional clique last week, Asian nations united in Dhaka, Bangladesh for a cleaner greener future. The group decided to jointly fight climate change, reduce greenhouse gases and help each other during a natural calamity. The group also stood together against developed nations urging them to spend 0.5-1 percent of their GDP to help the developing world face the challenge posed by climate change and make good their unfulfilled commitments towards cutting back on greenhouse emissions. The move seeks to pressure these nations to part with funds committed under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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Fostering Common Bonds
India’s new youthful politicians met Chinese officials to foster common bonds between the two countries on Monday. Trying to bring about a much needed change in India’s political image in the eyes of the world, the politicians were led by Sachin Pilot, a member of the Lok Sabha (House of the People) of the Indian National Congress. Pilot is heading a delegation of young Indian members of parliament at the invitation of the International Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee. The delegation met with Hua Jianmin, a senior Chinese legislator in a bid to share broad common interests between China and India, two of the largest developing nations.
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China Choice of Law in 2003
There’s an interesting article in the most recent edition of the Chinese Journal of International Law (7 Chinese J. Int’l L. 227 if you want to bring it up in WestLaw or LexisNexis) covering several subjects on Chinese judicial practice in 2003. The subjects covered include a statistical analysis of 50 civil and commercial cases from 2003, renvoi, inter-temporal conflict of laws, jurisdictional competition between judicial settlement of disputes and arbitration, and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards. The article is by Huang Jin, Director of Wuhan University Institute of International Law, and Du Huanfang, and is entitled Chinese Judicial Practice in Private International Law: 2003.
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Chinese Art & the Law
Yesterday while checking my gmail I noticed a link in the RSS feed at the top of the page to an International Herald Tribune article described as something along the lines of “Chinese investors savvy in the art market.” I clicked on the link and it brought me to an article entitled, Souren Melikian: Art casualties from Tibet to Cambodia find an eager market. The article was interesting, but nothing like the description from the RSS. Instead the article was about two recent auctions at Sotheby’s and Christie’s of art from Southeast Asia and the finest examples coming from Tibet. The catalog for the Sotheby’s auction can be found here; unfortunately Christie’s does not appear to catalog their catalogs online.
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Dissolving Investment Barriers
The third ministerial meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) hosted by India commenced on March 3, 2008 in New Delhi. Although SAARC – The South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation, comprising India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Afghanistan and Pakistan, hasn’t had the desired impact that NAFTA (North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement) has made, changes are clearly in the pipeline.
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