Accession into the WTO

External pressure for internal reforms in China

Bibliographic Data

ID12422977
AuthorsIck-Soo Kim (0000-0003-2244-4369, corresponding author), Icksoo Kim
Year2002
Volume11
Issue32
Pages433-458
Publication date2002-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary China (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1067-0564 • E-ISSN: 1469-9400
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10670560220152274
OpenAlexW2024538083
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited6

WTO accession is a blessing to China in that it serves as an effective external pressure to overcome political resistance and to accelerate economic reforms. However, structural, behavioral and cultural constraints will work as an obstacle to China's systemic transmorphosis into a more transparent, fair, efficient, and rule-based economy. In order to overcome such constraints and to reach best possible evolutionary trajectories to a WTO-compatible system, post-accession China is required to focus on social, legal and political system reforms, departing from the previous emphasis on economic reform. Peer pressure from other member countries would also be of additional help. Without fully successful non-economic system reforms, it may go through a period of policy errors and socio-economic instability, contrary to the rosy expectations by casual observers, and the Chinese leadership would find itself trapped and betrayed by its idealized notions of joining WTO to push internal reforms

Accession · Casual · China · Economic reform · Economic system · Economics · European union · International economics · Obstacle · Order (exchange · Peer pressure · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Work (physics · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Global trade and economics · International Development and Aid · Law

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