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China’S Entry Into The Wto—A Mistake By The United States?, Jennifer A. Hillman
China’S Entry Into The Wto—A Mistake By The United States?, Jennifer A. Hillman
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The conclusion that China's accession to the WTO was a failure from a U.S. perspective stems from: 1) loading too many issues and expectations—including an entire panoply of national security and geostrategic concerns -- on to the WTO and its rules-based, binding dispute settlement system to address; 2) failure by the United States and the rest of the world to use the tools available as a result of China’s accession to the WTO to both protect their domestic markets and hold China to account for its WTO commitments; and 3) China’s U-turn away from market-economy reforms to a much more …