Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 04/2014

Three challenges for China's outward FDI policy

Karl P. . Sauvant

October 2013

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

Abstract

China faces three main challenges: in the short-term, dealing with the growing skepticism with which its FDI is perceived in some host countries; in the medium-term, responding to efforts to discipline the use of home country measures; in the long-term, contributing to the establishment of a multilateral framework for investment.