Karan Bhatia
Karan Bhatia
Karan Bhatia is an American attorney and former senior official in the Bush Administration. He was the Deputy U.S. Trade Representative from 2005 to 2007, credited with leading the negotiation of the US-Korea Free Trade Agreement. Additional appointments include Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Aviation and International Affairs where he served from 2003 to 2005 and Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security from 2001 to 2003. He served a total of six years in the Bush Administration...
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China's apprentice period must now come to a close, and China must act as a fully accountable participant and beneficiary in the international trading system. China must find a way to pursue its own self-interest while also adhering to, and helping to shape, the policies and institutions that under gird its own prosperity and the prosperity of its trading partners.
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China must take responsibility commensurate with the benefits it is has obtained from participation in the international, rules-based trading system.
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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.