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I have serious issues with the following passage being presented as fact: "When China joined the WTO, it agreed to considerably harsher conditions than other developing countries.[8] After China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO), the service sector was considerably liberalized and foreign investment was allowed; restrictions on retail, wholesale and distribution ended.[9] Banking, financial services, insurance and telecommunications were also opened up to foreign investment.[10] Furthermore, China had to deal with certain concerns linked to transparency and intellectual property that the accession to WTO underlined"

In particular, how China "dealt with certain concerns" is a matter of contention between both nation states and individuals. Widespread intellectual property theft is still rampant in China, for instance, which belies the claim here, that China somehow "deal with" all the concerns that other member nations had. If insurance and telecommunications were opened up to foreign investment, why is it that the national telecoms carrier in China is state owned?Then there are their IP-transfer schemes, whereby foreign companies must surrender their IP to a joint foreign-chinese owned venture in order to access the chinese market. This is most in evidence in the passenger car market, where nearly every foreign car maker had to establish subsidiaries (51% owned by Chinese local governments or chinese corporations) in order to access the chinese market. This article completely ignores these common barriers to trade, and I would argue that the article is not an objective or even balanced view of the Chinese accession to the WTO.

In addition, I have concerns about which wikiproject this article should fall under. Obviously the article relates to China, but if the China portal editors cannot present criticisms as well as the happy-go-lucky everyone wins view, then they're not really presenting the topic in a credible way. This is all, by way of me not being a regular editor, armchair philosophizing. But damn if this isn't the worst introduction to China and the WTO I've ever seen. 97.105.199.198 (talk) 20:55, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Article probably could merit inclusion with some serious work, but in its current state is below acceptable standards for Wikipedia. DietFoodstamp (talk) 08:59, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This article is highly biased, unbalanced and attempts to cast China's admission into the WTO as all positive for all parties. It should be disregarded in its present form. 76.88.1.215 (talk) 01:04, 11 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This sentence suggests that political reform and economic reform went hand in hand in China, which is just DEAD WRONG: "Until the 1970s, China’s economy was managed by the communist government and was kept closed from other economies. Together with political reforms, China in the early 1980s began to open its economy and signed a number of regional trade agreements." Sure, there were minor political reforms. But China's government is STILL communist! There's just this myth out there, that capitalism=freedom. But china these days is dictatorship & capitalism. Can someone correct this, or may I do that? Don't have experience.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.194.92.11 (talk) 16:17, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]