TY - JOUR N2 - This article explores investment protection under Chinese international investment agreements (IIAs), particularly under the China-Poland bilateral investment treaty (BIT). As a state that both imports and exports foreign direct investment, China currently promotes balanced and safeguarded BITs that protect its increasing overseas investments and preserves the necessary space to regulate in the public interest. The Chinese government remains reluctant to be directly involved in investment arbitration as a respondent, while Chinese investors are active in taking advantage of the IIAs’ regime. When compared to China’s recent treaty practice and new developments in global investment governance, the China-Poland BIT is relatively outdated in terms of investment protection, promotion, social clauses, and dispute settlement. In terms of the investment protection effects of BITs, China is seemingly in a more urgent position to update the China-Poland BIT. However, if we evaluate the overall effects of a modernized BIT on investment promotion, regulation, and dispute settlement, an updated China-Poland BIT will fit the interests of both the Polish and Chinese governments. Notwithstanding the on-going negotiation between the EU and China, this article aims, along with presenting the Chinese practice regarding BITs, to describe de lege lata the state of protection offered to Chinese and Polish investors under the China-Poland BIT. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/113125/PDF/a08_Peng.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/113125 PY - 2018 EP - 163 DO - 10.24425/pyil.2019.129610 KW - China-Poland BIT KW - investment protection KW - investment arbitration A1 - Wang, Peng A1 - Żenkiewicz, Maciej PB - Institute of Law Studies PAS PB - Committee on Legal Sciences PAS VL - No XXXVIII DA - 2019.09.30 T1 - Protection of Polish Investors under the China-Poland Bilateral Investment Treaty SP - 141 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/113125 T2 - Polish Yearbook of International Law ER -