Conclusion

Abstract

This concluding chapter recaptures the main content of previous chapters and discusses the broader implications from this book in three aspects. First, it discusses the main effects of China’s deployment of IP engagement strategies and finds that modelling makes the Chinese IP system similar to those of the EU and the US. It then discusses how data from this book would inform the question of whether China has become a global IP regulator. China still has some way to go to influence global IP agenda-setting in a way that matches its status as the second-largest economy. Furthermore, international regime complexity makes it difficult for any state to exercise dominance  as the US did in TRIPS negotiations. Third, China’s diminishing resistance to high IP enforcement standards could be detrimental to global distributive justice from the cosmopolitan point of view. China has not imposed its high IP standards on other countries, but this is more an outcome of managing contesting principles than deliberately following non-imposition as a guiding principle.