2 Decades After Joining WTO, China ‘Remains Woefully Short’ of Meeting Pledges: Report

Beijing has engaged in ‘decades of gaming the global trading system,’ said Stephen Ezell from the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation.

A sign of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is seen on their headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on Sept. 21, 2018. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

Should China have been admitted to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001?

“Knowing now the behavior that China has exhibited as a member of the WTO over the past 20 years, with a really significant failure to live up to their commitments, the answer would be no,” Stephen Ezell, vice president of Global Innovation Policy at the Washington-based Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, told The Epoch Times.