From the International Herald Tribune:
China might be the world’s third-ranked trading nation and a superpower in the making, but when it comes to the international trade talks taking place here on Chinese soil, Beijing’s representatives are all but invisible.
Rather than play a leading role at the World Trade Organization ministerial talks this week, the 100-strong delegation from Beijing, led by the trade minister, Bo Xilai, has carefully avoided taking a strong stand along any of the fault lines on market access that divide the developed and developing world.
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