No More ‘Business as Usual’ With China

No More ‘Business as Usual’ With China
A booth of U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm at an expo in Beijing, China, on Sept. 27, 2017. (Reuters/Stringer).
James Gorrie
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As both the world’s largest source of foreign direct investment (FDI) around the world and the largest beneficiary of FDI, should the United States be selective about which countries can invest in U.S. companies and infrastructure?

More to the point, should the federal government have the power to tell Silicon Valley high-tech startups and other potentially strategic technology firms which foreign investor dollars they may accept and which they may not?

James Gorrie
James Gorrie
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James R. Gorrie is the author of “The China Crisis” (Wiley, 2013) and writes on his blog, TheBananaRepublican.com. He is based in Southern California.
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