Of 7 judges 4 whose terms have expired have not been replaced because the United States has blocked the naming of their replacements 2 of the remaining 3 are due to leave on wednesday with only one member remaining the court would no longer be able to function and the director general said that he will be now holding intensive consultations of a political nature ill get to his statement in a minute but what he said was that he thinks we need to dig deeper and we need to have a broader look at what we might be able to do in order to get a permanent solution to this problem involving the appellate body many of washingtons objections center on rulings related to trade with china. Without a court the 164 member w t o would no longer have a binding dispute Settlement System in a global trade environment that is a ready highly volatile that prospect has many feeling highly alarmed. Lets check in with our china expert cliff coonan who is in hong kong at the moment. Are they really that diffic
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