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February 27, 2013, Wednesday
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EUROPE has attracted twice as much investment as the United States from Chinese investors in the past two years for commercial opportunities and political reasons, the Rhodium Group, a US consulting firm specializing in contextual analysis of macro-economic tends in China, has said in a report.
Annual flows of Chinese direct investment to the European Union increased from less than US$1 billion before 2008 to an average of US$3 billion in 2009 and 2010, before tripling to more than US$10 billion in the past two years, according to the report.
In the US, Chinese direct investment surged from below US$1 billion in 2008 to US$5 billion in 2010, before dropping to US$4.7 billion in 2011 and reaching a record high of US$6.5 billion in 2012, which remained below the levels seen in the EU in the past two years.
This was mostly driven by commercial opportunities resulting from the fiscal and economic crisis in the eurozone, according to Thilo Hanemann, the research director of the Rhodium Group and the author of the report. "Chinese investors seized opportunities to buy into cash-strapped European industrials and assets promising stable long-term returns such as utilities and other infrastructure," he noted.
For example, China invested more than US$5 billion in EU transport infrastructure and utilities through 2012, while the US attracted close to zero investment in transport infrastructure from China.
Hanemann also mentioned national security concerns as an important factor in affecting China's investment in the report. "Chinese telecommunications equipment firms spent more than three times as much in Europe than in the US, where the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US has interfered with several deals and firms have seen their business diminished by intervention from US government officials, members of Congress and the security community."
Annual flows of Chinese direct investment to the European Union increased from less than US$1 billion before 2008 to an average of US$3 billion in 2009 and 2010, before tripling to more than US$10 billion in the past two years, according to the report.
In the US, Chinese direct investment surged from below US$1 billion in 2008 to US$5 billion in 2010, before dropping to US$4.7 billion in 2011 and reaching a record high of US$6.5 billion in 2012, which remained below the levels seen in the EU in the past two years.
This was mostly driven by commercial opportunities resulting from the fiscal and economic crisis in the eurozone, according to Thilo Hanemann, the research director of the Rhodium Group and the author of the report. "Chinese investors seized opportunities to buy into cash-strapped European industrials and assets promising stable long-term returns such as utilities and other infrastructure," he noted.
For example, China invested more than US$5 billion in EU transport infrastructure and utilities through 2012, while the US attracted close to zero investment in transport infrastructure from China.
Hanemann also mentioned national security concerns as an important factor in affecting China's investment in the report. "Chinese telecommunications equipment firms spent more than three times as much in Europe than in the US, where the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US has interfered with several deals and firms have seen their business diminished by intervention from US government officials, members of Congress and the security community."
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