Karan Bhatia Obtained Quotations

China must take responsibility commensurate with the benefits it is has obtained from participation in the international, rules-based trading system.

China has not played a role in strengthening the international trading system commensurate with its commercial heft and the benefit it has obtained from that system. An imbalance of this magnitude is not sustainable, either politically or economically, over the long term. One need only ask whether - if the tables were turned - China would tolerate a bilateral trade imbalance of that size with the United States.