CIAO DATE: 09/2009

China's Changing Outbound Foreign Direct Investment Profile: Drivers and Policy Implications

June 2009

Peterson Institute for International Economics

Abstract

In 1967 Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber published Le defi americain, a call to beware of American multinationals buying up the world. In the 1980s and 1990s it was Japan’s turn, spawning books like Clyde Prestowitz’s 1993 Trading Places: How We Are Giving Our Future to Japan. Today it is China’s outbound foreign direct investment (OFDI) that elicits the most anxiety China’s OFDI has reached commercially and geoeconomically significant levels and begun to challenge international investment norms and affect international relations.

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