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More Significant than September 11?

"While few doubt the importance of the September 11 terror attacks, analysts say China’s entry into the World Trade Organisation three months later may eventually be seen as having even greater reverberations.

When China joined the WTO on December 11, 2001, it submitted to a universal set of rules, signing off sovereignty it had defended fiercely for millennia, said David Zweig at Hong Kong’s University of Science and Technology. "

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