China's Position, Role, and Strategy in the WTO

Author: Tu Xinquan
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: This book is divided into 7 chapters. The first chapter elaborates on the research objectives, approach, and methods of the book, and reviews and evaluates existing research related to the book's topic. The second chapter studies the organizational characteristics, decision-making processes, trade negotiations, and dispute settlement mechanisms of the WTO to understand the nature and operational methods of the WTO as an international organization. It reveals the substantive features of the WTO beneath its rule-based system, laying a foundation for analyzing the positions, roles, and strategies of its members, as well as China's role in the WTO. The third chapter selects four representative members and provides a historical and contemporary analysis of their positions, roles, and strategies in GATT/WTO. The fourth chapter briefly reviews China's accession process to the WTO, analyzes the decision-making motivations behind it, and summarizes the content of China's commitments, implementation status, and the impacts over the past two years, aiming to clarify China's future role, functions, and strategies in the WTO. The fifth chapter proposes China's position and role in the WTO to determine how China can contribute within the WTO and what strategies it should adopt. The sixth chapter defines the fundamental tasks of China in the WTO and the basic attitudes and strategies to achieve these tasks, analyzing the feasibility of such strategies in the context of the Doha Round's progress. The seventh chapter summarizes the main arguments and conclusions of the book.