This Is What Chinese Overseas Investments Look Like in 2 Charts

Not everything works out but the it is making up a significant part of the foreign exchange reserves now
This Is What Chinese Overseas Investments Look Like in 2 Charts
Valentin Schmid
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Chinese are big on investment—the world knows that. They like building bridges, airports, factories, trains, residential real estate, pretty much everything. That’s why investment still makes up 50 percent of their GDP.

Up until recently, they also liked to export and keep their currency stable vis-à-vis the U.S. dollar.  

Valentin Schmid
Valentin Schmid
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Valentin Schmid is a former business editor for the Epoch Times. His areas of expertise include global macroeconomic trends and financial markets, China, and Bitcoin. Before joining the paper in 2012, he worked as a portfolio manager for BNP Paribas in Amsterdam, London, Paris, and Hong Kong.
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