China's WTO Ambassador Li Chenggang spoke at a conference on China's 20 years in the WTO last week, where he made some interesting remarks on China's views on various WTO issues.

1. WTO reform in general:
China should consider the issue in a broader context rather than just the Sino-US trade war.
2. DSM, which was a key issue in his discussion with @AmbassadorTai, where he calls for new thinking "not only in the framework of Sino-US game, but from perspective of multilateral trading system, & perspective of a membership structure with increasingly divergent interests."
Put this together with the new US WTO Ambassador's recent statement by @snlester, maybe we will finally have "these conversations" about bringing back the AB, as advocated in my new op-ed in @thehill with @gregorycshaffer?

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