Xi`s Free Trade Credentials Under Scrutiny Amid Missile Spat

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China and South Korea concluded talks in 2014 on a free trade deal and it took effect in late 2015.
South Korea is citing international rules championed by Xi Jinping to push back against the treatment of its companies amid a missile shield spat, raising questions about the Chinese president?s free trade credentials.
?Responses will be taken via international law should China violate WTO or Korea-China free trade agreement rules.
? China has become an advocate for the WTO and free trade as a response to the protectionism emerging from the administration of U.
S.
President Donald Trump.
The government in Seoul could look to the World Trade Organization or its bilateral free trade deal arrangements as China retaliates for its decision to deploy a U.
S.
missile defense system, Vice Trade Minister Woo Tae-hee said in a statement on Tuesday.