The BBC article includes this handy chart:
As you can plainly see, most of this is not 'investment' in the productive sense, they are just buying up pre-existing streams of rental or monopoly income.
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5 comments:
Exactly, it is what those who buy colonies do and always do. We should know.
D, a good point well made.
We have China, which uses renmimbi, "investing" in the UK, which uses sterling, so why are the amounts expressed in dollars?
Won't the proportions stay roughly the same...
B, it's all only approx figures so you might as well express them in USD, and as R says, the proportions are the same.
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