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How tensions between specific Chinese and American interests affect China's entry into the WTO

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The USA regularly stresses that it is in favour of China's admission to the World Trade Organization, given the country's growing network of international relations and its increasing political and economic significance. China's own political leadership has been driving home its demand to be readmitted to the GATT (WTO) since as long ago as July 1986. Yet in spite of the apparent concurrence of interests the two countries convey to the outside world, China's entry negotiations have not yielded any evidence of a positive outcome.

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Gurbaxani, I., Opper, S. How tensions between specific Chinese and American interests affect China's entry into the WTO. Intereconomics 33, 212–222 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02929516

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