WTO and National Sovereignty

Author: Liu Dexi, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: As the world's largest developing country, China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) is beneficial to our reform and opening-up and economic development, as well as the need to establish a complete and open international trade system. China can only join the WTO as a developing country, adhering to the principles of balancing rights and obligations and gradual market opening, to ensure state control over the lifelines of the national economy, maintain national economic security, and safeguard national sovereignty.