Introduction

As China becomes an ever more important commercial world player, foreign investors and commercial partners increasingly seek assurance of the enforceability of their rights in China, in particular where the dispute at stake is settled outside of China and/or outside of ordinary court proceedings. This is one of the reasons why the enforceability in China of arbitral awards has attracted so much attention in recent years. Whereas foreign practitioners regularly report "horror stories" concerning failed enforcement cases in China, Chinese authorities and part of the ...