In Geneva, Switzerland, not far from an awesome-looking Freddie Mercury statue, is the headquarters of the World Trade Organization, where diplomats from around the world have gathered to review the trade policy of the world’s second largest economy: China.
This is a big deal at the WTO, because China’s a big deal. Thanks in no small part to its entry into this institution twenty years ago – facilitated in no small part by the U.S. government’s decision to normalize trade relations in 2000 – China’s economy and the wealth of many of its people have grown exponentially.
