With the latest stats showing the global economy will only grow by around 2-percent this year, questions about trade-protectionism have been increasing.

It comes amid a recent up-tick in the number of trade investigations launched at the WTO.

A number of them have been directed at Chinese firms.

To that end, CRI's Zheng Chenguang spoke with Zha Xiaogang, Research Fellow at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies.