Henry Gao

This is the million dollar question that has been asked about China's economic and trade system all the time. Last week, China's WTO Ambassador Dr. Zhang Xiangchen gave the following reply at the General Council meeting, "Back in 1992, when China announced that it would

I understand that Geneva has been hot these days, but yesterday, the hottest place in town was nowhere but inside Centre William Rappard, where the US and China engaged in a white-hot debate on the Chinese economic system at the General Council meeting. Firing the first shot by calling China

The Singapore Management University (SMU) is seeking a post-doctoral fellow, in a position jointly sponsored by SMU’s School of Law and School of Social Sciences. This position is on an exciting new interdisciplinary research project studying the interplay between infrastructure building and institutional building under China’s Belt &

Yesterday's General Council meeting was quite entertaining, to say the least, with "hatchets", "rabbits" & "dogs" flying in the air when the US and China engaged in several rounds of heated exchange. While China blamed the US for wrecking "the crown

The $50 billion tariffs proposed by the Trump Administration put China into a “Catch-22” position. If China doesn’t retaliate and only follows the proper dispute settlement procedure to challenge them in the WTO, then it has to wait at least 2 years before the US measures are finally ruled

I guess this 365 billion dollar question has been lingering in everyone's mind since Trump took office a year ago. Now the USTR finally made it clear in its  2017 Report to Congress on China’s WTO Compliance, which it launched to great fanfare yesterday: "In November

Yesterday, Canada launched the first WTO dispute of the year to mark the start of the auspicious year of 2018. The respondent in the dispute - the US - was apparently not very amused and called the request for consultations "a broad and ill-advised attack on the U.S.

Paul Blustein, the author of "Misadventures of the Most Favored Nations", comes back with another tale of "Misadventures of the Most Powerful Nations". It provides not only important insights on some of the most important systemic issues facing the WTO, but also a peek into the

In a rare move, China published part of the opening statement in a WTO dispute: the EU - Price Comparison Methodologies case. The statement refers extensively to the negotiating history of Section 15 of China's Accession Protocol, and even included video clips and statements by then-USTR Barshefsky, US

The posts by Simon and Inu on the US notifications proposal help to bring to light the important but often ignored issue of notification in WTO agreements. As I've just finished an article on the implementation of the WTO transparency obligation by China, I'd like to