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The Institutional Dilemma and Improvement of China's Anti-Sanctions Law

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DOI: 10.23977/law.2025.040418 | Downloads: 14 | Views: 529

Author(s)

Li Xuexiu 1

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1 Southwest Petroleum University, No. 8 Xindu Avenue, Chengdu, China

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Li Xuexiu

ABSTRACT

After the signing of the 25-year strategic cooperation agreement between China and Iran in 2021, especially after the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2022, the United States has frequently wielded the stick of sanctions and continuously strengthened containment and suppression of China. Secondary sanctions are based on their dominant position in the international community to increase the cost of a third country's compliance with the sanctions of the sanctioning countries, and to transform their unilateral sanctions into a coercive means of multilateral sanctions. In order to safeguard national interests and national dignity and to express a solemn and just stand against hegemony and power, China has successively promulgated relevant counter-sanctions laws, such as the Measures for Blocking the Improper Extraterritorial Application of Foreign Laws and Measures, the Law on Opposing Foreign Sanctions, the Foreign Relations Law, and the Export Control Law. However, at the same time, because China's legal system on countermeasures is still in the exploratory period, and various systems are still being continuously improved with the development of practice, it is inevitable that there will be problems such as immaturity and lack of practicality, which will have high requirements and strict standards for all parties involved in preventing problems, discovering problems, and solving problems, and China's anti-sanctions legal system will continue to mature and become a powerful tool for protecting national interests and safeguarding national security.

KEYWORDS

Anti-Sanctions, Secondary Sanctions, Legal Systems

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Li Xuexiu. The Institutional Dilemma and Improvement of China's Anti-Sanctions Law. Science of Law Journal (2025) Vol. 4: 114-128. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/DOI: 10.23977/law.2025.040418.

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