Realist and Internationalist Perspectives of WTO Reform Challenges From the US-China Trade War and Broader Questioning of the International Trade System

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Realist and Internationalist Perspectives of WTO Reform Challenges From the US-China Trade War and Broader Questioning of the International Trade System

Shuo Tan 1 , Yanchen Wu 2
  • 1 Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467    
  • 2 Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, United States    
  • *corresponding author
Published on 1 March 2023 | https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/2/2022356
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Abstract

During its twenty years, WTO’s longstanding commitment to forming the multilateral international trade freedom shaped the rule and system among its hundreds of members. The trading world has been a seamless façade, covering the increasingly revolutionary change of a new, emerging order. The conundrum of WTO reform has been a consequence of global economic imbalance and political conflicts. Two representatives of the world’s extreme ideologies once again compete against each other for decades without effective resolution. WTO needs self-reform, not only for its own international jurisdiction and jurisprudence, but more of the collaboration from a settled international economic and free trade community. We will discuss the relevant elements from two different perspectives from institutionalism and realism.

Keywords:

realism, US-China trade war, institutionalism, WTO reform, international trade order

Tan,S.;Wu,Y. (2023). Realist and Internationalist Perspectives of WTO Reform Challenges From the US-China Trade War and Broader Questioning of the International Trade System. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,2,112-118.
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Tan,S.;Wu,Y. (2023). Realist and Internationalist Perspectives of WTO Reform Challenges From the US-China Trade War and Broader Questioning of the International Trade System. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,2,112-118.

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References

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[3]. Rathore, A., and Bajpai, A., (2020). The WTO Appellate Body Crisis: How We Got Here and What Lies Ahead? https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2020/04/rathore-bajpai-wto-appellate-body-crisis/.

[4]. Pimentel, F., (2020). Advantages and Disadvantages of Selling to Chinese State-Owned…. kahnlitwin.com/blogs/tax-blog/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-selling-to-chinese-st ate-owned-enterprises.

[5]. Xu, C, and Gu, B., (2016). A Review of State-Owned Enterprises from WTO Law Perspective. Journal of Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, 2016,23(03): 5-22.

[6]. Mavroidis, P. C., and Sapir, A., (2021) China and the WTO: An Uneasy Relationship. voxeu.org/article/china-and-wto-uneasy-relationship.

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[10]. Kasperek, M., (2020) What happened to transatlantic cooperation on WTO reform? https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/what-happened-to-transatlantic-c ooperation-on-wto-reform/.

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