2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: 3 upsides to the DNC email leak: (1) Sanders was tight, (2) Discipline was swift, and (3) Tim Canova [View all]Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)them from the WTO might not be the worst idea.
Remember the Court in The Hague just ruled against China? Knowing what I know about the place (living there for ten years and being married to a full blown Chinese Communist Party member), if the court sided with them, they would have instantly come out and said "see, we were right. How dare you infringe on our soverignity?" The court ruled against them and they, predictably, started throwing a temper tantrum.
If they are part of the WTO, things would come to a grinding halt as the Chinese delegation would demand all their issues be addressed first and if they weren't, they would threaten all sorts of crap.
The Chinese government is a weak willed schoolyard bully.
Let's not blame America first without knowing what you're dealing with. What most Americans don't know about China would fill volumes.