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Adjunct Fellow In a sign that not all hope has been lost in combating China’s efforts to co-opt international organizations (IO), Beijing recently suffered a bruising defeat at the hands of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in its quest to secure market economy status. This little-noticed, de facto ruling represents a major setback for China’s economic aspirations, and serves as an important reminder that IOs can, in fact, be leveraged to slow down China while the United States and its allies speed up their efforts to address Beijing’s increasingly hostile behavior. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is rarely silent in...
