Should China have been admitted to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001? “Knowing now the behavior that China has exhibited as a member of the WTO over the past 20 years, with a really significant failure to live up to their commitments, the answer would be ‘no,’” Stephen Ezell, vice president of Global Innovation Policy at the Washington-based Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF), told The Epoch Times. In a new report (pdf), Ezell details how the Chinese regime “remains woefully short” of meeting the commitments it made as conditions of its WTO accession in December 2001, including in the areas of “industrial subsidization, protection of foreign intellectual property, forcing joint ventures and technology transfer, and providing market access to services industries.” According to the WTO, economies that join the organization benefit by realizing “structural and trade-liberalizing reforms” that “help to secure integration into the global economy.” In 1999, …