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China trumpets claims of WTO leadership in 2019

January 3, 2020 at 3:00 PM
In a year-end look at its economic record published this week, China touted what it called its leadership at the World Trade Organization, including “deepened” participation in reform efforts and its commitment to the multilateral trading system. “The Ministry of Commerce has continuously deepened its participation in the WTO reform work … and comprehensively expounded China’s WTO reform ideas,” a Chinese Ministry of Commerce statement reads, according to an informal translation. “China has propagated China's stand for multilateralism and free...


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