While China has a full bag of tricks to limit its exposure to imports when it wants to, Beijing is quicker to come into compliance with adverse WTO decisions than the democracies it trades with. China’s Compliance Record While China has a full bag of tricks to limit its exposure to imports when it wants to, Beijing is quicker to come into compliance with adverse WTO decisions than the democracies it trades with. After losing a challenge to its Demonstration Bases-Common Service Platform subsidies in a WTO dispute case, Beijing did not spend extra years fruitlessly litigating appeal nor try and foist a pretend resolution and bring the situation to the brink of retaliation – it agreed to completely end the illegal export subsidies. This mak...

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