While many claims will be made about the benefits of such an arrangement to this country's economy and businesses, the ultimate success of the effort to sell the American legislature on China's accession to the WTO will probably turn on a different contention.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Since then, and especially since the surge that followed its accession to the WTO in 2001, China's economic clout has grown as fast or faster in its own region as anywhere.

ECONOMIST: Banyan

Lastly, Washington, having strengthened the hand of China's conservatives, may have to soften its demands in areas such as WTO accession if it does not want to see the more open-minded, pro-reform elements in Beijing further undermined.

CNN: EMBASSY FIASCO