As China goes to WTO over Indian incentives to local electric vehicle sector, what do experts think?

China is questioning India’s electric vehicle subsidies on the global stage.

The world’s largest EV producer, China has requested the World Trade Organization to settle a dispute with India over incentive schemes, which it claims discriminate against Chinese goods, according to a communication released by the Geneva-based intergovernmental body on October 20 .

In its complaint dated October 15, Beijing had challenged three of India’s production-linked incentives, or PLIs. China claims they are “contingent upon the use of domestic over imported goods or that otherwise discriminate against goods of Chinese origin.”

The dispute pits China’s need for new markets against India’s push to build its own EV industry.

China is making more EVs than it can sell at home, and Western countries are