Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, Volume 29 (2011).

CHINESE (TAIWAN) YEARBOOK OFINTERNATIONAL LAW AND AFFAIRS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ARTICLES -- When Investment Law Takes over: Towards a New Legal Regime to Regulate Asia Pacific's Submarine Cables Boom -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I. Introduction -- II. Overview of the Legal Regime Governing Submarines Cables -- A. The 1884 International Convention for the Protection of SubmarineTelegraph Cables -- B. The 1958 Geneva Conventions -- C. The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea -- 1. Territorial Sea -- 2. Functional Areas outside of the Territorial Sovereignty of Costal States -- 3. Other Relevant Instruments on Submarine Cables -- III. Existing Gaps and Suggested Perspectives in Asia -- IV. Bilateral Investment Treaties: A Brief Overview -- A. The Laying of Submarine Cables as "Investment" under the ICSIDConvention -- B. The Laying of Submarine Cables as an Investment in BITs -- C. Relevant BIT Provisions -- 1. Conditions for the Entry of Foreign Investors and Transfers -- 2. Standards of Treatment of Foreign Investments and Investors -- 3. Dispute Settlement -- V. Bilateral Investment Treaties as a Complementary Regime -- VI. Concluding Remarks -- Bargaining for Mijiu Tax Reduction in the Shadow of WTO Law: Challenges for Taiwan and Lessons from Cases against Japan and Korea -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I. Introduction -- II. Rice Wine Taxation as an Issue in Taiwan: Background and Development -- A. Price Hike of "Red-Label" Rice Wine in Taiwan and the Impacts -- B. Unsuccessful Efforts in Early 2000s -- III. Recent "Successful" Tax Cut in Taiwan -- A. Tax Reduction in 2009: Alcohol Content as Basis -- B. Tax Reduction in 2010: Reclassifying Red-Label Rice Wine -- IV. WTO Jurisprudence about Alcoholic Beverages Taxation: Cases against Japan and Korea -- A. Japan - Alcohol Beverages Case -- 1. Product and Measure at Issue.

2. The Findings -- B. Korea - Alcohol Beverages Case -- 1. Product and Measure at Issue -- 2. The Findings: GATT Article III:2, Second Sentence -- C. Lessons from Cases against Japan and Korea: Focused on DCS -- 1. DCS as the Focus -- 2. Criteria for Assessing DCS -- 3. Looking at "Potential" Competition -- 4. Other Noteworthy Points -- V. Evaluating Taiwan's Arguments and Conduct -- A. Taiwan's Arguments and Conduct -- B. Challenges from Trading Partners -- 1. The Trading Partners' Response -- a. The EU -- b. The US -- c. Predicting the Partners' Arguments -- 2. Checking Taiwan's Arguments and Conduct -- VI. Conclusion -- The Cross-Straits Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement: Legal Issues -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I. Introduction -- II. The WTO Legal Framework for Regional Trading Arrangements and the Cross-Straits Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) -- A. The GATT Rules for Custom Unions and Free Trade Areas -- B. The "Enabling Clause -- C. The GATS Rules for Preferential Trade in Services -- D. The ECFA -- 1. Outline of the Agreement -- 2. Legal Issues -- a. Nature of the Agreement -- b. Compliance with WTO Provisions -- c. The Signature Issue -- III. The Regulation of Investment -- IV. DISPUTE SETTLEMENT -- A. General Dispute Settlement Procedures -- B. Investment Disputes -- V. The Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Economic Cooperation between ASEAN and the People's Republic of China, and the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) between Mainland China and Hong Kong -- A. The Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Economic Cooperation between the Association of South East Asian Nations and the People's Republic of China -- 1. Nature of the Agreement -- 2. Compliance with WTO Provisions Although -- B. The CEPA between Mainland China and Hong Kong -- 1. Nature of the Arrangement -- 2. Compliance with WTO Provisions.

VI. Future FTAS for Taiwan? -- VII. Conclusion -- CITES as an Alternative for Effective Fisheries Management in the Asia-Pacific Region -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I. Introduction -- II. International Initiatives to Curb Overfishing on the High Seas -- III. CITES and the Protection of Commercially-Exploited Fish Stocks in General -- A. Fisheries Aspects -- 1. Concrete Reaction of FAO with Respect to Listing Proposals of Commercially-Exploited Aquatic Species within CITES -- 2. General Cooperation between CITES and FAO Regulated by Means of a Memorandum of Understanding -- B. Legal Aspects -- IV. CITES and the Protection of Commercially-Exploited Fish Stocks in the Asia-Pacific region -- A. Statistical Analysis -- B. Substantive Analysis -- 1. From 1992 to 2004 -- 2. From 2004 to 2010 -- C. Cooperation between CITES and FAO in Practice in the Asia-Pacific Region -- V. Conclusions -- Annex 1: Marine Species Proposed for Appendix I &amp -- II Listing by CITES Members Since 1992 -- Annex 2: Proposals to List Marine Species Residing in the Asian Seas or in the Pacific Ocean in Appendix I &amp -- II between 2004 and 2010 -- Multilateral Treaties and Recognition of States - The Japanese Case Law on the Applicability of the Berne Convention and the Patent Cooperation Treaty between Japan and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea -- Table of Contents -- I. Introductio -- II. KFEIC &amp -- Kanario Kikaku v. Nippon Television / KFEIC -- A. Facts -- B. The Governments' Positions -- 1. Japan -- a. Reply from the MOFA -- b. Reply from the MEXT -- 2. The DPRK -- C. Judgments -- 1. Principles -- a. Constitutive Effects of the Recognition of States -- b. The Power of the Non-recognizing Party to Unilaterally Determine the Applicability of the Treaty in Relation to the Unrecognized Party -- 2. Exceptions -- a. Erga Omnes Exception -- b. Institutional Exception.

III. Guardian Enterprises Ltd. v. Japan -- A. Facts -- B. Judgment -- IV. Analysis -- A. Japan's Practice on the Applicability of International Law Rules in Relation to Unrecognized States -- 1. Customary International Law -- a. State Immunity -- b. Law of the Sea -- c. State Responsibility -- d. Territorial Sovereignty -- 2. Multilateral Treaties -- a. Awkward Basis of the "Erga Omnes" / Institutional Exceptions -- b. Practice of Other States -- B. Political Character of the Recognition of States -- V. Conclusion -- From Eco-Terrorism to Eco-Tourism: Assessing Effective Regulatory Tools and Regimes in Marine Management -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I. Introduction -- II. International Regulatory Tools -- III. Regional Regulatory Tools -- IV. National and Local Regulatory Tools -- V. Conclusion -- The Use of Force and Expanded Conceptions of Self-Defence -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I. Introduction -- II. The Right of Self-Defence under Article 51 of the UN Charter and Customary International Law -- III. Armed Attack -- IV. Collective Self-Defence -- V. The International Court of Justice and the Use of Force in Self-Defence -- VI. Preventive (Anticipatory) and Pre-Emptive Self-Defence -- VII. Self-Defence against Terrorist Attacks -- VIII. Conclusions -- Innovative Arbitration Agreements to Resolve Border Disputes and the Role of Regional International Organizations: Can the Example of Slovenia-Croatia Arbitration Agreement Be Followed in the Asia Pacific? -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I. Introduction -- II. Characteristics of the Border Dispute between Slovenia and Croatia and the Quest for its Resolution -- III. Particularities and Innovative Solutions of the Arbitration Agreement -- IV. Regional Organizations in the Asia-Pacific with Potential to Contribute to Resolution of Territorial Disputes -- V. Concluding Remarks -- IN MEMORIAM.

PROFESSOR HUNG DAH CHIU, S. J. D. (1936-2011) -- PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2011 INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONAL CONFERENCE -- I. Conference Summary -- II. Opening Ceremony -- III. Welcome Address -- IV. Keynote Addresses -- CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE AND JUDICIAL DECISIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA (TAIWAN) RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL LAW, 2011 -- Compiled by Chun-i Chen, Pasha L. Hsieh, Chun-Liang Lai, I-Hon Hsiao, Pei-Lun Tsai, and Kai-Chih Chang with the Assistance of Lee &amp -- Li Attorneys-at-Law -- Explanatory Note -- I. INTERNATIONAL LAW IN GENERAL -- Foreign Policy Report, 7th Congress of the Legislative Yuan, 8th Session (September 29, 2011) -- President Ma Ying-jeou's National Day Address -- II. SUBJECTS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW -- The Government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Recognizes the Independence of the Republic of South Sudan -- The Government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Recognizes Libya's National Transitional Council -- III. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS -- General -- Republic of China and Intergovernmental Organizations -- Republic of China and International Non-Intergovernmental Organizations -- Taiwan's Quest for Meaningful Participation in the International Civil Aviation Organization -- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan)Expresses Deep Gratitude for the European Parliament's Staunch Support for the Signing of an EU-Taiwan Economic Cooperation Agreement andTaiwan's Meaningful Participation as an Observer in Relevant International Organizations and Activities, Such as UNFCCC,WHO and ICAO -- United Nations -- The ROC Government Continues to Vie for Meaningful Participation in the United Nations and Seek Support from the Public and the International Community -- World Health Organization -- President Ma Holds Press Conference to Explain Government's Position on WHO Name Issue.

Department of Health's Declaration of Participation in the World Health Assembly (WHA).

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