During that time, the Chinese team, led by Foreign Trade Minister Shi Guangsheng, accepted the Americans' six concessions but pushed for more.
Also in the building were 14 Chinese-owned companies, the Foreign Trade Ministry in Beijing said.
Those U.S.-educated Chinese trade lawyers who work for foreign law firms based in China can be considered "Chinese legal capacity" too, said Wang.
But more and more Chinese firms are trying to build their WTO or foreign trade practices, said Judy Wang, an international trade lawyer at Troutman Sanders and a former member of the Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Center's training program.
Long Yongtu, vice minister of foreign trade and chief WTO negotiator, told Chinese television the event reminded him of the time when Beijing won its seat at the United Nations.
Chen said that Romney believes China must obey the principles of free trade and put an end to its practice of manipulating the value of the yuan, erecting trade barriers against foreign companies and enabling Chinese enterprises to steal intellectual property to the detriment of American industries.
Trade and investment offers a big loophole for Chinese and foreign firms.
One reason why Chinese officials have not felt the need to devalue earlier is that foreign trade has remained in balance, or, better, in surplus.
Nicholas Lardy of the Brookings Institution notes another reason for the outflows: a huge increase in trade credit extended to foreign (mainly South-East Asian) buyers of Chinese goods.
But that may reflect the Chinese regulator's decision to tighten up on triangular trade transactions, in which Chinese importers paid yuan to an intermediary, who then paid the foreign supplier in dollars.
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It puts Chinese military modernization in a much larger context that talks about China's economic development, trade policies, foreign policies, China's domestic problems.
The flow of Chinese investment overseas and investment in China by foreign multinationals will, if history is a guide, spur still more trade between China and others.
We Chinese consumers believe it is insane for our government to continue to chase the chimera of ever-growing foreign exchange and trade surpluses.
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