Ten Years in the WTO: Has China Kept Its Promises?

By Congressional-Executive Commission on Ch and Congressional-Executive Commission on China

Ten years ago this week, China acceded to the World Trade Organization [WTO]. Prior to that, the United States granted China permanent normal trade relations, or PNTR. This Commission was formed in that process with a mandate to monitor human rights and the development of the rule of law, or the lack of progress thereof, in China. In 1998, two years before China joined the WTO, I chaired a hearing of the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights of the Foreign Affairs Committee which examined whether bringing China into the WTO would improve its human rights record. As a member of the WTO, China has experienced tremendous economic growth and integration into the global economy. But as this Commission's most recent annual report documents, China continues to massively violate the basic human rights of its own people and systematically undermines the rule of law.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1480229679
• ISBN13: 9781480229679
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"