Past Event
China and the WTO: (How) can they live together?
What changes can be made to make China and the WTO more compatible with each other?
video and audio recordings
At this event we presented “China and the WTO: Why Multilateralism Still Matters” (authored by Petros C. Mavroidis and André Sapir) and discussed China’s participation in the World Trade Organization, the conflicts it has caused, and how WTO reforms could ease them.
China’s accession to the WTO in 2001 was rightly hailed as a huge step forward in international cooperation. However, China’s participation in the WTO has been anything but smooth, with China alienating some of its trading partners, particularly the United States. The mismatch between the WTO framework and China’s economic model has undermined the WTO’s ability to mitigate tensions arising from China’s size and rapid growth. Can the WTO system predicated on liberal domestic policies and China’s socialist market economy system live together? What must change to make them more compatible with one another and avoid continuous tensions that risk endangering the very existence of the WTO?
Schedule
15:00-16:30 CEST / 9:00-10:30 EDT / 21:00-22:30 CST
Kick-off remarks
Chair: Maria Demertzis, Interim Director
Anne Krueger, Professor, John Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
Pascal Lamy, President, Paris Peace forum
Justin Yifu Lin, Dean, Institute of New Structural Economics, Peking University
Petros C. Mavroidis, Edwin B. Parker Professor of Foreign & Comparative Law, Columbia University
Conversation and Q&A
Chair: Maria Demertzis, Interim Director
Anne Krueger, Professor, John Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
Pascal Lamy, President, Paris Peace forum
Justin Yifu Lin, Dean, Institute of New Structural Economics, Peking University
Petros C. Mavroidis, Edwin B. Parker Professor of Foreign & Comparative Law, Columbia University
André Sapir, Senior Fellow
Speakers
Maria Demertzis
Interim Director
Anne Krueger
Professor, John Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
Pascal Lamy
President, Paris Peace forum
Justin Yifu Lin
Dean, Institute of New Structural Economics, Peking University
Petros C. Mavroidis
Edwin B. Parker Professor of Foreign & Comparative Law, Columbia University
André Sapir
Senior Fellow
Location & Contact
Katja Knezevic
[email protected]