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hina with the World Trade Organization since the end of last year, more than any other country. The cases charge that China has kept tariffs illegally high on imports from the United States of automobile parts and illegally subsidized a myriad of manufactured goods. The trade office has also challenged as insufficient a Chinese crackdown on piracy and counterfeited goods and demanded that it give greater access to American copyrighted products that could pete with phony Chinese copies. But Karan Bhatia, a deputy United States trade representative, said these cases should be seen as a plement to, and not a substitute for, negotiations. He noted that the United States recently persuaded China to protect software from being pirated and won other concessions without litigating the matter with the World Trade Organization. Last week, a joint investigation between Chinese and United States law enforcement authorities resulted in the arrest of 25 people in China and the seizure of more than $500 million worth of counterfeit Microsoft and Symantec software that was being made there and distributed worldwide. We continue to monitor China39。 dispute prevents action that would further roil relations with China. To keep the dialogue going, Paulson arrived in Beijing on Sunday for his fourth visit in a year. No other country has focused his attention as much, though as the chief executive of Goldman Sachs before joining the Bush administration, Paulson took more than 60 trips to China to conduct business. The Treasury secretary said that he would discuss food safety, the environment, currency, reform of capital markets and other issues with President Hu Jintao and Deputy Prime Minister Wu Yi, his counterpart in the strategic dialogue. 2 China has been hit by unwele publicity over charges of tainted pet food, toothpaste and other products. It has started a major revamping of its safety measures, along with a public relations campaign to assure consumers at home and abroad. It also executed its fo