Services Liberalization in China’s Free Trade Agreements

Shi, Jingxia

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3371328

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“…Through the accession to the WTO and active participation in bilateral and regional FTAs, China has strategically engaged in the process of globalisation and adroitly utilised it to facilitate and deepen domestic economic reform (Buckley & Zhou, ). In liberalising the service sector, China has taken an incremental approach to mitigate the impacts of foreign competition on the pursuit of various policy objectives including the growth of domestic service industries (Chen & Whalley, ; Shi, ). Globalisation has reshaped China's education industry (Mok, ).…”

Section: China's Liberalisation Of Education Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of the China–Australia Free Trade Agreement on Australia's education exports to China: A legal and economic assessment

2018

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As a landmark achievement in the development of the China–Australia bilateral economic relations, the China–Australia Free Trade Agreement (“ChAFTA”) achieves a higher level of liberalisation in education services compared with China's commitments under the World Trade Organisation and its other free trade agreements. However, the ChAFTA fails to relax the major regulatory barriers in China, which will remain the key obstacles to Australia's education services exports to China. Through a preliminary study and a regression analysis of the impacts of the ChAFTA on Australia's education exports to China based on available data, we show that the ChAFTA did not play a significant role in promoting the application and approval of Sino‐Australian joint programmes but did contribute to the growth of international student enrolments from China. The effect of the ChAFTA is, at best, secondary to that of domestic regulation and tends to be greater in less regulated areas.

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Section: China's Liberalisation Of Education Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%