[M]any are concerned that the WTO is losing its essential focus on negotiation and becoming a litigation-centered organization. Too often members seem to believe they can gain concessions through lawsuits that they could never get at the negotiating table.
Lighthizer highlights concerns about the WTO's shift from negotiation to litigation.
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In our view, you can't be in the position where we are the residual of Chinese state capitalism.
I think that too often we think of agriculture on the defense. The fact is that every place where we have a market, and we have a lot of them, the market could be much bigger.
Nobody is declaring war on Canada or saying they're an unfriendly neighbor, they're obviously not.
So I agree with you that China is a bad actor, and that we cannot let their devious behavior go unchecked.