China Marks 10 Years as WTO Member Amid EU and US Criticism
December 12, 2011, Bloomberg

This month marks the 10th anniversary of China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO).

All WTO members agree to make concessions during accession talks and China was no exception, said David Hartridge, a senior trade policy adviser for the law firm White & Case LLP in Geneva and a former WTO official.

"It made substantial concessions and political commitments which might not have been easy to implement and, some would say, aren’t fully implemented yet," he said. "One thing that clearly has not happened, as some people feared, is that China would be a disruptive element, as a great economic power with a very strong tradition of centralized control."