ABSTRACT
In a world where economic globalization is in full swing, China is becoming
an increasingly active player in the international community. China has joined most of the inter-governmental international organizations. Accord-
ing to incomplete statistics, China’s membership in international organiza-
tions is 80 percent of that of the United States,1 an important sign of
China’s involvement in economic globalization and its integration into the
international community. The interdependence between China and interna-
tional organizations has become an important subject for academic research
in international relations. This chapter, taking China’s accession to the
World Trade Organization (WTO) as a case study, aims to analyze and explore the interactive relations between China’s domestically engineered
political and economic reforms and China’s foreign policy from the per-
spective of international political economics.
