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China has been described as the greatest threat to the World Trade Organisation, and its biggest champion. The WTO wasn’t designed to handle China, and its entry has had seismic consequences. If China won’t change, can the WTO adapt? Without reform, could China break the WTO?
And finally, can the post-war rules and institutions survive in a recognisable form, or are we already witnessing the birth of a very different world?
By BBC World Service4.6
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China has been described as the greatest threat to the World Trade Organisation, and its biggest champion. The WTO wasn’t designed to handle China, and its entry has had seismic consequences. If China won’t change, can the WTO adapt? Without reform, could China break the WTO?
And finally, can the post-war rules and institutions survive in a recognisable form, or are we already witnessing the birth of a very different world?

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