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What Role For The Wto In Disciplining China’S State-Dominated Economy?, Jennifer A. Hillman
What Role For The Wto In Disciplining China’S State-Dominated Economy?, Jennifer A. Hillman
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Is the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its rules-based system capable of addressing the distortions in trade caused by the explosive growth of China’s State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs)? If it is, why hasn’t it been put to use? If the WTO rules are not up to task, where and how do they need to be changed? Those are the questions that Henry Gao and Weihuan Zhou answer in their thorough and compelling assessment of the current state of China’s SOEs, the commitments China made when it joined the WTO and the relevance of the applicable WTO rules, Between Market Economy and …
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
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
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 …