While there has been an extensive literature on the challenge procedure of the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) in general, as well as excellent country studies on the operation of the national challenge procedures of several key GPA Members, no such study has been conducted for Hong...

This paper challenges the widespread view that existing WTO rules are insufficient for dealing with state capitalism in China, which has been further emboldened by the latest rounds of state-owned enterprise (“SOE”) reforms. Through a careful review of WTO agreements and jurisprudence, it is...

This article builds from original fieldwork to show what lies behind China’s remarkably successful use of international trade law to take on the United States and Europe. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is unique in China’s international relations as it is the only forum where China, with...

As China enters its tenth year of WTO Membership, has the dragon brought a ‘reign of fire' to the multilateral trading system and rocked its institutional foundations? This paper will answer this question by reviewing China's participation in two key activities of the WTO, i.e., trade...

On November 11, 2001, China finally acceded to the WTO in Doha, Qatar, at the 4th Ministerial Conference, which also launched the first negotiating Round of the new trade body since its establishment. As China is the largest country that has ever acceded to the WTO, many commentators predicted...