Article source
Wall Street Journal
Article date
Sun, May 21, 2017
China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 was a transformational moment in the global economy—the beginning of a new era of globalization. But now there’s a popular backlash against globalization in the West. What happened? And what comes next?
The Wall Street Journal’s Andrew Browne spoke with two central actors in the WTO drama, Charlene Barshefsky, trade representative under President Bill Clinton, and Long Yongtu, China’s vice minister of commerce from 1997 to 2003. Edited excerpts follow.