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Article: The real China question: the case for conditional free trade. (China's acceptance into the World Trade Organization).
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- The American Prospect
- Article date:
- July 1, 1997
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Links between Chinese officials and U.S. political campaigns--coupled with renewed concern about human rights abuses by the Chinese government--have put China policy center stage. But while public officials and many commentators here have focused their attention mostly on the contentious issue of whether to renew China's most-favored-nation trading status, the more important question is whether China should be admitted into the World Trade Organization (WTO)--and whether formerly communist states such as Russia should be next.
Created in 1994 as a more potent successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the WTO is the Geneva-based ...