Instead, they are relying on the mechanisms within the WTO to retroactively reprimand China should the country violate WTO regulations. That China will violate regulations is certain, how well equipped the WTO is to react is less so. One argument we will hear today is that in addition to the benefits the USA can attain from WTO entry, the ordinary people of China will as well. Should China enter the WTO, it would become easier for this small group to divert and embezzle the country's money and betray China's best interests. However, the corrupt elite don't represent ordinary people.
China is notoriously rife with corruption.
WTO entry will simply export that corruption into the international marketplace. The country will be able to set its own very poor president of non-compliance to WTO regulations, and export further corruption into the WTO itself. Even more Chinese workers will be laid off, and even more peasants will flood into the cities. The people of China know that their country's economy is already quite precarious. Many areas stand on the brink of collapse.