China Launches Anti-Dumping Probe Into EU, US, Japan, Taiwan Plastics as Trade Tensions Intensify

Experts have said that the move is a calculated retaliation by the CCP against the West amid the trade frictions.

Electric cars for export stacked at the international container terminal of Taicang Port in Suzhou, in China's eastern Jiangsu Province, on April 16, 2024. STR/AFP via Getty Images

The Chinese communist regime’s Ministry of Commerce announced on May 19 that it has opened an anti-dumping investigation on polyoxymethylene (POM) copolymer imported from the European Union (EU), the United States, Taiwan, and Japan.

The move comes as trade frictions between China and the West have continued to intensify. International affairs observers have said that trade tensions between China and the West may evolve into a full-scale trade war.