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Summers: US made zero tariff reductions during China's 2000 WTO entry
“We had given them MFN status 15 years before. No one. They had MFN status. They had it for 15 years. There was not a single reduction in a barrier to Chinese trade. So the way in which you're describing it is just, bears no resemblance to what it was.”
Dalio: The WHO and WTO are obsolete as global conflicts rise
“Things like the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, all of those are obsolete, and so we're going to have, again, might is right, and so it's going to be a period of greater conflict.”
Chamath: Bush traded China's WTO entry for a UN vote on Iraq
“All of a sudden, Bush comes along and says, Well, you know, this seems to be working out. Well, I want to go to war with Iraq, I need to basically get China to vote. Yes. And the Security Council. Okay, what's it gonna take? China's like, admit me to the WTO.”
Chamath Palihapitiya: Bush traded China's WTO entry for a Security Council vote
“George Bush in 2001 had this really seminal decision, which is he had the ability to block China from entering the WTO and instead he left them in. And he traded that for a vote on the Security Council.”
Sacks: Admitting China to the WTO was a huge mistake
“25 years ago it was a huge mistake to walk China into the WTO.”
Chamath: China's WTO accession was a massive labor arbitrage for global corporations
“People thought that China was going to be a honeypot of economic activity, and it turned out to be a sucking sound, a grand sucking sound of opportunity, where the globalist corporations saw a massive labor arbitrage. So it's fair to say that it was done with …”
Sacks: Millions of heartland jobs were lost from China entering WTO
“I don't think the millions of Americans who lost their jobs In the heartland, because we let China into the WTO, which is something that Larry, I think, supported and championed.”
Emanuel: China has more WTO dispute cases than any other country
“They have more cases, WTO cases, than any other country, and all of them combined are against China.”
Chamath: China made major export and trade concessions for WTO entry
“Prior to the WTO, China imposed a bunch of export duties and taxes on a whole bunch of goods to control outflow. Ok, that prioritized domestic supply. As part of coming into the WTO, China said, hey, hold on, we'll limit these export duties to only a specific …”