2015年考研英语阅读理解精选20篇(第六篇)

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    中国入世十年回想当年
    CHINA’S efforts to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO) dragged on for
15 years, long enough to “turn black hair white”, as Zhu Rongji, China’s former
prime minister, put it. (His own hair remained Politburo-black throughout.) Even
after membership was granted, ten years ago this week, Mr Zhu expected many
“headaches”, including the loss of customs duties and the distress of farmers
exposed to foreign competition.
    Yet the bet paid off for China. It has blossomed into the world’s greatest
exporter and second-biggest importer. The marriage of foreign know-how, Chinese
labour and the open, global market has succeeded beyond anyone’s
predictions.
    It is instead China’s trading partners who now contemplate its WTO
membership with furrowed brows (see article). They have a variety of complaints:
that China exports too much, swamping their markets with cheap manufactured
goods, subsidised by an undervalued currency; that it hoards essential inputs,
such as rare earths, for its own firms; and that it still skews its own market
against foreign companies, in some cases by being slow to implement WTO rules
(notably on piracy), in others by suddenly imposing unwritten rules that are
unfavourable or unknowable to foreigners. The meddling state lets multinationals
in, only to squeeze them dry of their valuable technologies and then push them
out.
    Much of this criticism is right. China made heroic reforms in the years
around its WTO entry. That raised expectations that it has conspicuously failed
to meet. It signed up for multilateral rules, but neglected the rule of law at
home. Free trade did not bring wider freedoms, and even the trade was not
exactly free. It is in China’s interest to liberalise its exchange rate further,
to prevent local officials from discriminating against foreigners and above all
to do far more to support the global trading system. The WTO is undermined when
any member flouts the rules, never mind one as big as China.
    Too big to be a bystander—or to be kept out
    But China’s sins should be put into perspective. In terms of global trade
consumers everywhere have gained from cheap Chinese goods. Chinese growth has
created a huge market for other countries’ exports. And China’s remaining
barriers are often exaggerated. It is more open to imports than Japan was at the
same stage of development, more open to foreign direct investment than South
Korea was until the 1990s. Its tariffs are capped at 10% on average; Brazil’s at
over 30%. And in China, unlike India, you can shop at Walmart, most of the
time.
    As for the hurdles foreign firms face in China, they are disgraceful—but
sadly no worse than in other developing countries. The grumbles are louder in
China chiefly because the stakes are higher. Foreigners may have won a smaller
slice of China’s market than they had hoped, but China is a bigger pie than
anyone dared to expect. Had China been kept out of the WTO, there would have
been less growth for everybody. And the WTO still provides the best means to
discipline and cajole. Rather than delivering congressional ultimatums, America
and others could make more use of the WTO’s rules to curb China’s worst
infractions.
    So celebrate China’s ten years in the WTO: we are all richer because of it.
But, when it comes to trade, China’s rulers now badly need to grow up. Their
cheating is harming their own consumers and stoking up protectionism abroad.
That could prove to be economic self-harm on an epic scale.
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