Abstract
This chapter focuses on strategies that China has used either to achieve one of the principles or to reconcile two contesting principles. It identifies two groups of strategies that China has used in its global IP engagement: forum and agenda-related strategies and principle-related strategies. Forum and agenda-related strategies concern where and how to advance an agenda, which consists of multi-forum engagement, dissembling, and more cohesive responsive engagement. Principle-related strategies are those to achieve a certain principle and manage contesting principles. China modelled IP systems that it deems more advanced in the last four decades. Meanwhile, balancing is used to reconcile potential contestation between IP instrumentalism and foreign policy principles. After analysing the strategies individually, it further discusses the potential effects of deploying these strategies.
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Cheng, W. (2023). China’s Strategies to Engage in Global IP Governance. In: China in Global Governance of Intellectual Property. Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24370-7_9
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