Commentary This year, 2021, marks the 20th since China became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO). There have been a large number of publications either commemorating or reassessing the Chinese regime’s participation in the WTO. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) propaganda mouthpiece People’s Daily published an article on Dec. 11, boasting that the accession of China to the WTO is “a typical win-win situation for China and the rest of the world.” Western publications, however, look at the CCP’s WTO membership with a more realistic reassessment. For example, the BBC published a Chinese article in December, claiming that the CCP’s entry to the WTO “has changed the rules of the game for the United States, Europe, and most Asian countries, and indeed for any country with resources of industrial value, such as oil and metals.” Most of the Western reflections acknowledge that for the past 20 years, the …