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U.S.- China Showdown Keeps Inching Closer

http://time.com/4236409/united-state...uth-china-sea/

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/02...china-sea.html

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One of the conditions of Beijing’s entry to the WTO in 2001 was that other members would be able to treat Chinese goods as coming from a non-market economy, meaning that they could continue to impose punitive import duties on cheap Chinese goods.

But that provision expires this December, and while China argues that expiry of this provision will automatically qualify them for market-economy status, this has been disputed by other countries – a legal issue that would have to be adjudicated by a WTO arbitration panel.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repor...ticle28855373/

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Exclusive: Major powers team up to tell China of concerns over new laws

The United States, Canada, Germany, Japan and the European Union have written to China to express concern over three new or planned laws, including one on counterterrorism, in a rare joint bid to pressure Beijing into taking their objections seriously.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ch...Name=worldNews