Three Scenarios Emerge in U.S.-China Chess Match at the WTO

A pedestrian outside the WTO in Geneva.

Photographer: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg

The World Trade Organization’s next director general will have to walk a fine line between the U.S. and China at a moment when each are angling for greater control over the world’s multilateral institutions.

So it’s worth asking, what are the U.S. and China looking for in a WTO leader?