How will the world trade regime handle a large, increasingly powerful country such as China that apparently plays globalisation by different rules? This is the question that keeps US and European policymakers awake at night. The fever runs highest in the US, where the Trump administration has blamed China for engaging in economic aggression and has declared trade war in response. The US president’s methods may be frowned upon, but the view that something has to be done about China’s trade and industrial practices is widespread among mainstream policy elites.
世界貿易體制該如何應對一個像中國這樣日益強大、並且明顯不按同樣規則參與全球化的大國?這是一個讓美國和歐洲的政策制定者夜不能寐的問題。這種焦急情緒在美國最爲高漲——美國的川普(Trump)政府指責中國進行經濟侵略,並以發起貿易戰作爲回應。人們可能並不贊同美國總統的策略,但在主流政策精英中,必須對中國在貿易和產業上的做法採取行動的看法相當普遍。