This paper discusses the role of the World Trade Organization, China, and various western business cultures. When China joined the World Trade Organization, the whole world wondered what the details of the agreement would be and how trade tariffs and quotas would be established (Liu and MacKinnon, 2001), considering the universal awareness of the utterly different management concept it had from the others in the negotiation table. Even then, serious observers were of the consensus that the divergence between Eastern and Western business styles would grow less and less with time and on account of globalization, increasing world trade and growing freedom of capital flows (Liu and MacKinnon).
