WTO Was a Tool to Accelerate China's Growth

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He saw WTO as a way to accelerate domestic economic reform.

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<p>He saw WTO as a way to accelerate domestic economic reform. As a way to cement it and hold China accountable for it, internationally, which puts additional pressure on China simply as a matter of face. He certainly believed in a more rapid acceleration in growth. I don&rsquo;t know that even he could have seen how rapid that acceleration was. I always thought, in line with this, that there would be an acceleration in growth. I didn&rsquo;t see how extraordinarily rapid and robust it would be.</p>
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Charlene Barshevsky explains how Zhu Rongji saw the WTO as a way to accelerate China's growth.