This recently reported development in NAMA negotiations is noteworthy, because it is as far as I can tell a first really overt break from China's so-far rather accommodating diplomacy in the WTO. The repeated reference to veto rights is worryingly reminiscent of the UN Security Council, where China knows all about veto ploys. My sense is that what can be interpreted as aggressiveness is an expression of defensiveness derived from the feeling that China is becoming a dispute settlement and press punching bag (and a rather large one, at that).
T.
