Specialist: China broke all free trade rules after being admitted to WTO

: World Tribune; 04 May 2025; Hits: 11

by WorldTribune Staff, May 4, 2025 Real World News

A plunge in China’s export orders and activity shows President Donald Trump’s tariffs are hitting the communist regime in Beijing hard.

A measure of China’s new export orders plunged in April to the lowest reading since December 2022.

The data is “an early sign that trade between the U.S. and China is in danger of drying up as American importers cancel or delay orders after a rush to bring in goods earlier this year before tariffs came into effect,” the Wall Street Journal noted.

Trump in his second term has hit Chinese imports with tariffs of 145% as part of a much broader assault aimed at rewiring U.S. trade with the world.

But, a China specialist said, it will take much more to even the playing field as China has essentially broken all free trade rules since President Bill Clinton signed the United States–China Relations Act of 2000 which paved the way for China’s World Trade Organization (WTO) accession.

“WTO commitments were made by a communist and poor China that was allowed to enter the free market,” Gabriele Iuvinale, Senior China Fellow at EXTREMA RATIO – OSINT, said in a post on LinkedIn.

“But let’s never forget that. More than two decades later, China has grown richer, moved from classical communism to hard-line totalitarianism, constantly threatens the international order by extorting states, and, most importantly, has never abided by conventional free trade rules.”

Communist Party chief Xi Jinping “is a wolf in sheep’s clothing and no agreement will ever be respected by this China,” Iuvinale added.

Iuvinale included the graphic below in which the right column shows a ranking of China’s economic malpractices: