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2006-06-19 | Beijing
A World of Opportunity: China and the future of international tradeIn this speech at Renmin University in Beijing on 8 June 2006, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson calls on China to move to meet its outstanding WTO commitments or risk a backlash in Europe against its perceived trading power. Arguing that Europe for its part had to have" the confidence to welcome China's economic resurgence", Mandelson also insists that if China does not provide better access for EU investment and trade, improved protection of intellectual property rights and the dismantling of export incentives and other forms of trade-distorting subsidy, it could provoke a negative protectionist response in Europe.
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