CHINA AND THE WTO: AN ACTIVE PLAYER IN FORMULATING NEW RULES FOR GLOBAL ECONOMY

WTO Reform against the Backdrop of Global Trade TensionsThe discussion surrounding the reform of the World Trade Organization(WTO) is hardly new. The WTO reform has occupied a central position in the discussion of its member states and prestigious think tanks for more than two decades since the organization commenced and especially in the past decade. Among them, the "WTO crisis", "WTO failure" and other diagnoses and warnings suggest the grave challenges facing the WTO.Roberto Azevedo, the incumbent WTO Director-General, believes that the WTO is facing an urgent task of reform.Azevedo has thus initiated "crisis dialogues" with member states. Prior to the Donald Trump administration, the United States and the European Union had proposed WTO reforms that demanded