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Chinas government has failed to live up to the claims its backers made in 2001 to help it gain entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), according to a congressional commission.
In its 2010 annual report, released yesterday, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) details the multiple ways the Chinese government has flooded the United States with exports while shutting its doors to imports and costing millions of U.S. jobs.
In an understatement, Carolyn Bartholomew, the commissions vice-chairman, told a Washington, D.C., press conference yesterday:
The grounds on which it [Chinas entry into the WTO] was sold did not turn out as promised for American workers.
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