15, 2020.1 A perusal of the agreement reveals that its investment chapter appears to have a
serious oversight: it is missing investor-state dispute settlement (" ISDS") provisions. 2 The
member states agreed on the investment protection clause but failed to agree on ISDS
provisions. Instead, they inserted a renegotiation clause to complete these terms after
ratifying the treaty. Likewise, the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (" FTA") lacks …