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China, the US, and the Danger Zone (Robert Wright, Hal Brands, and Michael Beckley)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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The WTO and China's Authoritarian Autocracy

The case of the WTO has just made it a completely ineffective organization. It's actually very hard to things like non tariff barriers like subsidies are hard to trace to explicit that outlaw them as opposed to just blatant tariffs. I think this illustrates at how a state dominated economy can can if it if it uses those tools can be functionally incompatible with the letter and the law of this existing international institution. So a state is the economy, you think is okay anyway I I I'm not. You seem to think that even if we just kind of quit preaching about human rights and sanctioning countries for based on their form of government and human rights and so on there would still be a problem with China obeying

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