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China targeted a record number of commercial conflicts in the World Trade Organization last year, as prosperous exports in the country were flooded with international markets and caused objections from its trading partners.

Beijing was the subject of 198 cases of commercial investigation in World Trade Organization In 2024, its balance doubled in the previous year and nearly half of all the conflicts that were presented to the World Trade Authority, according to the research conducted by the Economy Professor at Beijing University Le Fing.

Chinese policy makers relied on an increase in exports to maintain growth in the second largest economy in the world and compensate for weak local demand amid the real estate sector slowing for a year. The world trade surplus has arrived in the country Record nearly one dollar in 2024.

“If the Chinese economy can become more balanced for its own interests, it may also improve relations with other countries.”

Analysts said that the tariff pressure of US President Donald Trump China It would exacerbate trade pressure elsewhere, especially in developed countries, as the targeted Chinese goods will flow into other markets.

Trump has imposed an additional 20 percent additional fees on all Chinese goods since he took office in January, and is expected to reveal a mutual tariff against American trading partners on April 2. Targeting about 36 billion dollars in American goods Including agricultural products, cars and energy.

“The more barriers put forward by the United States and Japan, the more the European Union should digest Chinese production,” said Francois Chimits, an economist at the Mysore Institute for China Studies.

The European Commission launched 21 commercial investigation into Chinese products in 2024 – including steel cylinders, PlywoodCandles and decorative paper, among others – from nine in the previous year, according to Chinese data.

More than half of the commercial issues against China began last year by developing countries, indicating that Western countries’ objections to excessive Chinese production were widely shared.

Data showed that 117 cases were started by emerging economies, including 37 from India, 19 by Brazil and nine from Türkiye.

The low -cost flooding of China has led to some of the closest Beijing partners. Russia recently imposed “recycling fees” to impeding the prosperous Chinese car imports, which seized Almost two thirds of the local market In the aftermath of Western sanctions on Moscow.

Pakistan, which is the largest sovereign donor, opened five commercial cases in 2024, focused on high imports in printing paper, self -tape and chemical products.

Pakistani Finance Minister Mohamed Uranzib told the Financial Times that the relationship of countries “go beyond trade” and conflicts will be resolved in a timely manner.

He added that China was helping to build special economic areas, “so we can actually obtain exports from Pakistan,” although many of the huge projects funded by the Chinese in the country were suffering from delay and exceeding costs.

Chimits said the concentration of Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the expansion of the high -tech industrial capacity raised a long -term challenge to the country’s commercial partners.

“When you are big like China, you have to care for what your imbalance means for the rest of the world,” he said.

Chinese politicians have pledged in recent months Helps stimulate spending on consumersAnalysts said the plans lack the details.

Bing Sen, a former former state plan in China, said there is a great re -thinking to push the country towards the growth led by consumption.

“For a long time, we have produced priority over living Government Forum in Heinan Last week.

“Our traditional policies and systems were not very friendly to consumption, which led to a state of pent -up consumption.”

Data is visualized by Haohsiang Ko in Hong Kong