Abstract

China's Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law and the new Draft Arbitration Law raise significant potential issues regarding international arbitration in China. International arbitration is highly sensitive to sanctions due to the increasing use of sanctions and the geo-political intricacies of imposing same. This article makes three contributions to the literature on sanction and arbitration: (i) provides an assessment of the Anti-Foreign Sanction Law (AFSL) and its impact on sanctioned arbitrators, arbitration institutions and other parties in the proceeding; (ii) an analysis of how local courts ...