China Going Global

• Published 02 Apr 2009

Kerry Brown, China expert and Senior Fellow at Chatham House, a UK think tank, follows China’s surge in overseas direct investment and identifies four rules that characterise its flows.

Gerard Lyons, chief economist of Standard Chartered bank, said at a meeting in Greece in 2007 that “while the era of 'Made in China' may be drawing to a close in the next few years, the era of 'Owned by China' is just beginning.”

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