Reflection about China’s role in the WTO

This week marks the twentieth anniversary of China’s accession to the WTO, and the world is assessing the success and failure of that historic development. The Financial Times notes that this anniversary is met with mixed emotions. Politico talks to US policymakers involved in negotiating China’s accession and finds that hindsight is 20/20.

In Foreign Affairs, Elizabeth Economy takes the broader view on China’s ambition to shape the rules-based international order in its favor, while James Fok in Asia Global Online proposed that ‘financial cold war’ more accurately characterizes US-China tensions.

Digging into trade and technology, the Harvard Kennedy School lays out the current and future “great tech rivalry” between China and the US, and the Asia Society Policy Institute focuses on China’s growing influence in the setting of international technology standards.

Tensions between Lithuania and China are increasing. The Perth USAsia Centre and the Asia Society Policy Institute weigh in on how best to counter trade coercion. Is coercion working in Europe? No, argues the Swedish National China Centre, in an article that outlines how to support targets of coercion.