From the perspective of the well-being of all the people of China, whether China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO), when it joins, and under what conditions it joinsâall these are unimportant. What is important is that, no matter how China joins the WTO, it must do so in a way that...

Let us start with the strategic interests of the United States. In reality, the United States is a country that takes ideology most seriously. For the last twenty years or so, the United States has consistently exerted great effort in selling its ideology to other countries around the world....

For the last decade or so, China has been dealing with the question of its joining the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization (GATT/WTO) in the same way that it has dealt with the issues of reform and opening up the country to the outside worldâin other words,...

The transmission disequilibrium test (TDT) is a standard method to detect association using family trio design. It is optimal for an additive genetic model. Other TDT-type tests optimal for recessive and dominant models have also been developed. Association tests using family data, including the...