This article discusses China's trade policy stance following World Trade Organization (WTO) accession in 2002. The issues now for China are less the merits of WTO accession, and more how her global trade policies are cast given WTO membership. Three issues are taken up. The first is the extent...

This symposium contains three papers on poverty and inequality in China. The issues surrounding inequality have been high profile in China for some time. They reflect the growth policies adopted in a commitment, initially from the mid-1980s onward, of growth almost at any price independent of...

This paper documents and assesses the significance of the policy changes in China that WTO accession implies in 3 key service categories (banking, insurance, and telecoms), asking whether it is likely they will really be fully implemented in their entirety as undertaken at signature in 2002....

In the paper we discuss China's participation in both the 2009 Copenhagen negotiations on a post-Kyoto global climate change regime currently under way and out beyond Copenhagen in further negotiations likely to follow. China is now both the largest and most rapidly growing carbon emitter, and...