Our Country's Strategy and Tactics in Joining the APEC and the WTO

Abstract

Since the ending of the cold war, the contestation among countries around the world that had previously taken the form of military and political conflict and ideological antagonism has already been transformed into a competition of economic interests; military conflict has been transformed into a conflict in the economic sphere. Thus, it would be far too much of an underestimation of the real situation if we were to consider our country's entrance into the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) merely as action whereby our country becomes blended into a unified international economy, and failed to see that this cooperation is at the same time also a very serious economic war (zhanzheng).