Invited by China Institute for WTO Studies of UIBE, Christopher Allison ， Counselor of U.S. embassy, made a speech about US-China trade issue for our faculty and students at room 607 in the research activities building. This lecture was moderated by Vice President of China Institute for WTO Studies Tu Xinquan. And doctoral students and postgraduates presented at this lecture.

Christopher analyzed the current situation of the US-China trade, the US  balancing measures in Asia and the future trend of development of US-China economics. Christopher mainly took TPP as a breakthrough point and explained that the stand

-point of US trade-balance measure was based on mutually reciprocal trade. At the same time, he analyzed the current situation and prospect of China joining in TPP and the correlation of WTO.

At the end of the lecture, vice president Tu and the postgraduates had a further communication with Professor Christopher on the TPP and the China-US relations. Professor Christopher thought that both China and Vietnam were developing coun –tries, so there were a lot of things in common between them in SOE issues. But as the international influence of China is relatively large, so relative to Vietnam, there would be more barriers for China joining in the TPP. After the lecture, vice president Tu gave Professor Christopher china as a gift. This academic report brought us the new trend of China-US trade development and we benefited a lot.                              (By  Han Jingxin)