During the meet, Biden reportedly said the U.S. was interested in seeing Chinese direct investment in American businesses.
Lending credibility to that threat is the fact that over the course of the next few years, the Obama administration will be the gatekeeper watching over billions of dollars of possible Chinese direct investment in the United States.
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Meanwhile, Huawei and officials of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce are lambasting the CFIUS decision as further evidence that the United States is closed to Chinese direct investment, and implying that U.S. investors might expect similarly shoddy treatment in China.
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Chinese foreign direct investment has long been characterized as focusing on securing raw materials in emerging markets like Africa and Latin America.
Chinese foreign direct investment flows into the African continent will grow.
Maximizing the Benefits of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment.
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More broadly, direct Chinese investment on U.S. shores may help improve the countries' fraught trade relationship, in the same way that a wave of Japanese auto plants did here in the 1980s and 1990s.
When it comes to foreign direct investment (FDI) and the Chinese, Europe is seen as more friendly.
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Direct investment by U.S. companies in China, Chinese exports to the U.S. and Chinese purchases of U.S. Treasury securities are all well off their peak growth rates.
Some 68% of the foreign direct investment (FDI) that China received in 2009 came from places where ethnic Chinese are the biggest group, with Hong Kong the number one source, Singapore number four and Taiwan number nine.
This is especially true of the overseas Chinese (including those in Hong Kong and Taiwan), who handle some 70% of foreign direct investment into China.
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