Economics, Politics and Public Policy in East Asia and the Pacific
Author: Theodore H Moran, Georgetown University and Peterson Institute
Chinese investment flows into the United States have reached unprecedented heights over the past two years and the future promises more of the same. Inward investment from China climbed to US$18 billion in the first six months of 2016, a threefold increase over the same period in 2015. Read more…
Authors: James Laurenceson and Hannah Bretherton, ACRI
In response to recent Chinese interest in infrastructure assets, the Australian government is under pressure to tighten its foreign investment review framework on national security grounds. Read more…
Author: Frans-Paul van der Putten, Clingendael Institute
One of the most enduring aspects of the global system of international relations has been the divide in terms of power and wealth between the West and the developing world. The rise of China, which combines the features of a developing country with those of an emerging superpower, is affecting the West’s position in the developing world.
Author: Shiro Armstrong, ANU
China’s rapid rise as a source of international investment has certainly caused a great deal of anxiety in a number of countries where China is buying up big.
Author: Sjamsu Rahardja, World Bank
As the economic woes in the European Union and the United States continue, the East Asian region is proving to be a relatively resilient region that could play a key role in restoring global economic growth.
Author: Miguel Perez Ludeña, UN Secretariat
China became the third-largest investor in Latin America in 2010 — behind the US and the Netherlands — while the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean estimated that Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) reached US$15 billion for the year. Ninety per cent of this was in extractive industries.
Authors: Hinrich Voss and Jeremy Clegg, University of Leeds
The changing fortunes of the world’s mature economies relative to the emerging economies have prompted a remarkable reversal of roles when it comes to who might be able to help whom.
And while it would be in everyone’s best interest to help one another in the wake of the global financial crisis, international investment in real assets (as opposed to the purchase of bonds or titles to debt) is the outcome of hard-nosed commercial business decisions. Read more…
