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This week, Gina Chan assesses how China's 20 years of membership of the World Trade Organization

have played out compared to expectations in the far-off days of 2001.

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Welcome to the views room from Reuters Breaking Views.

I'm Richard Beals, Global Deputy Editor of Reuters Breaking Views, the financial commentary

arm of Reuters News, and I'm coming to you from New York City.

For this week's episode of the views room, I'm connecting with my colleague Gina Chan in Washington

to talk about China's fractious role in global trade 20 years after the People's Republic joined the World Trade Organization with, I think it's fair to say, widespread support at the time.

Later on, Rob Cox, are Zurich-based global editors chatting with Jonathan Guilford, a New York colleague who's sojourning in Copenhagen

as it happens about Harley Davidson's plan to give its electric motorcycle business a higher profile

by merging it with a blank check company, also known as a SPAC. But back to the WTO and China,

Gina, I was living in Hong Kong back in 2001. There was a lot of fanfare. Although, you know,

China was already in the global trade system up to a point. It was a big moment for China to join

the WTO. And I think it's fair to say that certainly initially most people thought this is a great

thing to keep China in the system to help China grow its economy and grow its

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