China Maturing under WTO Rules

A WTO without China was not truly universal in scope. For China, formal accession to the WTO in December 2001 symbolized an important step of its integration into the global economic order," the European Commission says on its website. Few dispute this opinion, and such integration has been welcomed around the world. In 2001 U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue declared, "The United States, China and the worldeconomy stand to benefit tremendously from China’s accession to the