Introduction : China's 20-year engagement with the WTO : opportunities, challenges, and responses / Henry Gao, Damian Raess, and Ka Zeng -- 20 years on : China's role in the multilateral trading system / Siqi Li, Xiaozhun Yi -- China's changing perspective on the WTO : from aspiration, assimilation to alienation / Henry Gao -- Assessing the impact of WTO accession on China's economic growth : a synthetic control approach / Jing Li, Ye Liu, and Yinggang Zhou -- Two decades of TRIPS in China / Peter K. Yu -- The WTO and the rule of law in China / Grant Aldonas -- China's accession to the WTO and its impact on global agricultural trade / Joseph Glauber -- China's use of export restrictions and WTO law : heading towards "weaponization" of exports? / Iryna Bogdanova and Anqi Wang -- Tumult in the trading system : the China paradox, declining US institutional power, and the crisis at the WTO / Kristen Hopewell -- China's relations with the Global South in the World Trade Organization / Clara Weinhardt -- China and the BRICS in WTO E-commerce and fisheries negotiations : competition and convergence / Wei Liang and Ka Zeng