Misreading China’s WTO Record Hurts Global Trade

NEW YORK – The 20th anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization on December 11 has once again highlighted long-standing debates about how well China has lived up to its WTO obligations, and whether any deviation from its commitments boosts or slows its economic growth. This discussion affects many countries’ views on whether the current global trading system should be built up or pulled down. Former U.S. President Donald Trump was bent on pulling down the WTO, by re

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