The purpose of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is to promote the liberalization of international trade by reducing tariffs and other barriers to trade, eliminating differential treatment in international trade, and making full use of the world's resources in order to expand the production and circulation of goods.

As far as China is concerned, joining the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade will help China participate in international economic cooperation and international division of labor, promote economic development, expand exports and utilize foreign capital, and participate in international competition under equal conditions.

Moreover, it enables Huaxia to directly participate in the decision-making process of international trade rules, get rid of the unfavorable situation of others formulating rules and Huaxia passively accepting them, so as to safeguard its legitimate rights and interests.

China was originally one of the 23 founding signatories of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, but because of its capriciousness, it voluntarily withdrew from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in 1950, so China needed to rejoin the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and call it the resumption of customs clearance.

From 1986, when the GATT was formally applied for, until the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade disappeared in 1994, the WTO replaced it, but it was unsuccessful, and if it was counted as December 2001, when it formally joined the WTO, after 15 years, countless people have made inexhaustible efforts and efforts.

However, it has to be said that it is precisely because of China's accession to the WTO that China's economic development has really taken the fast track, and it has turned the WTO rules, which were originally exploited by developed countries, into a real big winner, and has become the world's largest country in trade in goods and the second major country in trade in services.

As far as Chinese enterprises are concerned, after China's accession to the WTO, Huaxia has become the "world's factory" by relying on the development of processing trade, and Huaxia's products have gradually spread all over the world.

Huaxia enterprises start slowly from simple processing of supplied materials, and gradually learn the advanced technology, management mode and talent system of foreign enterprises...... Gradually, Huaxia enterprises have established and improved their own industrial system, and Huaxia enterprises have begun to strive to climb in the global industrial chain and value chain.

At one point, the angry United States wanted to shake off China and re-establish a WTO.

"It's not easy to reopen, the United States and Europe don't give face, and the domestic opposition is relatively large. Dean Zhu said helplessly.

He naturally knows how important the resumption of GATT is to China, and it is not too much to even describe the resumption of GATT as a door for China's economy to the world, it is an inevitable choice to promote the sustained, rapid, and healthy development of China's economy, and it is an important symbol that China has entered a new stage of opening up to the outside world.

But to be honest, he is confused about the re-entry, which is like a thick fog in front of him, and he can't see any future ahead.

Because of the system and position, the United States and Europe have always believed that China is not worthy of joining, and the GATT is an institution that symbolizes free trade, globalization, and multilateralization.

On the domestic side, there are many people who are worried that if foreign companies enter China, it will have a huge impact on China's weak enterprises.

After all, opening up is relative, and if other countries open their markets to China and reduce tariffs, then China will naturally have to open their markets to other countries and reduce tariffs.

At this time, if those foreign companies are tigers with sharp teeth and claws, then Huaxia enterprises are just born, unwinded, thin and helpless little lambs, anyone feels that once the tiger fence is released, the tiger will instantly rush in and tear the little lamb to pieces.

Under this kind of internal and external difficulties, even he does not know where the road to the resumption of customs in China is.

But in the next moment, Dean Zhu's face suddenly turned stunned, and he looked at Fang Chen with a somewhat dull expression.

After a few breaths, he said in disbelief: "Are you so optimistic about Clinton?"

Fang Chen nodded affirmatively.

Although such an answer was already expected, Dean Zhu couldn't help but let out a long breath and his face was solemn.

In fact, he didn't care about what Fang Chen said before, using personal relationships to promote the resumption of customs, thinking that it was just some friends that Fang Chen knew in the American business community.

And just now, he suddenly realized that when Fang Chen said this, he was with a strong sense of confidence.

In other words, Fang Chen believes that his personal relationship can indeed help Huaxia to recover successfully.

Among Fang Chen's many relationships, the one who is most likely to have such energy is naturally Clinton.

If Clinton becomes president of the United States, the difficulty of resuming GATT in China will be reduced by more than 30 percent in an instant, and there will be many possibilities for success.

After all, you must know that the biggest stumbling block and opponent of China's road to reopening customs is the United States.

If the United States had not been obstructing it, China would have successfully resumed customs relations as early as three years ago.

But can Clinton become president of the United States?

President Zhu fell into deep suspicion, and no one who knew a little about the situation in the United States would think that anyone could defeat the incumbent president of Bush, who was called by Ronald Reagan as the best vice president of the United States, who dismembered the Soviet Union during his term of office, shocked the world in the Gulf War, and won a perfect victory.

But with his understanding of Fang Chen, Fang Chen has never taken the wrong path in big decisions, and his vision is indeed unexpected, but it is very correct and unique.

Since Fang Chen dared to donate $10 million to Clinton as campaign funds, and now he is talking like this, it is obvious that Fang Chen is very confident that Clinton will be elected president.

"Why?" Dean Zhu asked with a question, puzzled.

Fang Chen chuckled, "I admit that President Bush has indeed done a good job, and he still has more than 90 percent of the support of the American people, and his achievements are even more great for the United States." However, few people have noticed that in the past four years of his tenure, the American people's anti-war consciousness has been aroused because of the reckless use of military force and the repeated large-scale wars, and the economic development speed dragged down by the war has overwhelmed the American people. ”

Whether it is from his outstanding deeds as governor of Arkansas or from his election platform to guide the future development direction of the United States, under his leadership, the United States will inevitably have a technological and economic blowout, which is exactly what Bush lacks. ”

As the embodiment of justice, freedom, love and peace, who has never truly burned the flames of war on their own land, and who feels superior to others......

Don't laugh, there are a lot of Americans who think so.

As a result, Americans are far less able to bear war damage than the major powers, even less than Italy, and are more likely to oppose the war.

Bush's successive wars can easily remind Americans of the pain of being bogged down in the quagmire of the Indochina Peninsula in those 10 years, and then they ran into an economic genius like Clinton.

Therefore, Bush was not unjustly defeated.

To tell the truth, Bush Sr.'s qualifications and abilities are far several times higher than Bush Jr.'s, but he was unlucky, so Bush Jr. was re-elected, but he didn't.

In addition, during the eight years of Clinton's term of office, it was indeed not friendly to China, and China suffered several times of great humiliation from the United States, and it was during Clinton's term of office that China appeared.

However, in the same way, it was also Clinton who reached a bilateral agreement on China's accession to the WTO in 1999, which was a crucial step for China to enter the WTO, thus enabling China to have the confidence to smoothly negotiate with the EU and formally join the WTO in 2001.

It can be said that if it were not for Clinton's nod of approval, China's economic development would never be what it was in the previous life, and it would have been even more difficult.

Moreover, Fang Chen is still confident in his personal relationship with Clinton.

As Clinton's No. 1 benefactor, Clinton called him to report the good news as soon as he won a big victory in the second Democratic Party televised debate.

With a few reluctant words, he once again increased Clinton's campaign funds by $5 million, firmly holding Clinton's seat as the No. 1 financier.

Since then, Clinton has become much more affectionate to him, and he will call him every once in a while to contact him for fear that Fang Chen will run away.

Although he won the Democratic Party's internal election and became the presidential candidate to represent the Democratic Party, not many people thought that he could win against Bush, so the campaign funds he could get did not increase much.

In this case, he naturally wanted to be enthusiastic about Fang Chen.

Fang Chen didn't like to call Clinton very much, because there were many times when he called, and the call was answered by Sheila Li.

Although Sheila Li tried her best to please him, her subconscious dislike for Sheila Li made Fang Chen really lazy to have a fake greeting with Sheila Li.

In addition, the reason why the United States does not agree to China's accession to the GATT is by no means because it is afraid that China will be too strong and steal their business; after all, China's GDP at this time is only more than $370 billion, while the United States is already as high as $6.1 trillion, a difference of 15 or 6 times.

Moreover, the GATT was originally an organization created by developed countries in order to safeguard their own interests, so how could they be afraid that China would make some waves in it.

This is just a kind of contempt for Huaxia and contempt.

Even 189 years after its accession to the WTO, the free-market economic status that China should have obtained automatically in the 15th year has not yet been obtained, and it is still in the anti-dumping investigation, and it is necessary to substitute the country to prove whether China is dumping and whether it has subsidized enterprises.

Therefore, Fang Chen felt that with him helping Huaxia mediate, persuading Clinton, and then making some concessions at home, Clinton was very likely to relent, let Huaxia enter the WTO, and the price he paid was not necessarily more than in 1999.

Dean Zhu's mouth was tightly closed, and he fell into thought.

Naturally, he does not know who will eventually become US president, but he feels that there is still some truth in Fang Chen's words; Bush, as an old friend of China, was appointed by the US president in the 70s as director of the US Liaison Office in Yanjing, and he is no stranger to the existence of efforts to develop Sino-US relations during his tenure.

We also know that although Bush has made brilliant achievements in the past four years, he still cannot hide the fact that his economic performance is mediocre or even that he has not made any achievements.

Not only did he run a $200 billion deficit during his tenure, three times the size of 1980, but the U.S. economy continued to slump with an unemployment rate of 7.8 percent.

This is the highest since 1984, and it comes at a time when the U.S. economy is in recession, many factories are closing, workers are losing their jobs, economic growth is declining, and inflation is high.

If Clinton really plays the economic card, there is indeed the slightest possibility of defeating Bush.