Mission Impossible? Promoting Sustainable Development Through China’s Anti-Monopoly Law

This paper submits that China’s Anti-monopoly Law (“AML”) should play a more active role in promoting sustainable development goals (“SDGs”), especially those goals related to environmental protection and social development. In terms of institutional design, the indirect model, i.e. applying exemptions to anti-competitive conducts that serve public interest remains the more suitable approach to promoting SDGs through the AML. We suggest that the direct model, i.e. including non-eco