‘Chinese could have done nothing until $2 trillion from US as FDI arrived starting from 1995 until 2012. In that short period, the West built the factories for export and cash and Chinese with their own money built infrastructure. That is what China is today.
China has indeed attracted more than $2.1 trillion in foreign investment so far, but America's share is tiny.
China's foreign investment source regions, the top are from Asia,
Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea .
Much of the money in Hong Kong and Singapore came from mainland Chinese outflows
The stock of US direct investment in China is most commonly used
The official figure is not very large, reflecting the balance of payments
Some shortcomings of statistics. Bureau of Economic Analysis data
It shows that by 2015, US direct investment in China had been saved
Seventy-five billion dollars. This, according to China's Ministry of Commerce
In the first period, China's total direct investment from the US was 700
billion dollars. These two data are useful for analyzing bilateral direct investment
Both have limitations. We've done this on every stroke since 1990
Identify direct investment transactions of more than $1 million,
Quantification and statistics build a new set of transactions based
The database thus provides analysis of US direct investment in China
Another perspective on capital scale and model. We counted the recent
6,700 U.S. direct investment transactions in China, cumulative value
That's $228 billion. Our data includes 1,300
A number of U.S. companies with significant operations in China, among them
430 enterprises invested more than $50 million, 56 enterprises
Investment of more than $1 billion