West Must Be ‘Very Careful’ About Chinese Investment, Blinken Says

West Must Be ‘Very Careful’ About Chinese Investment, Blinken Says
Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives at the G7 foreign ministers meeting in London, Britain, on May 5, 2021. Ben Stansall/File/Pool via Reuters
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LONDON—Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State,  said the West has to be very careful about the exact nature of Chinese investment in Western economies and give careful consideration to investments in strategic assets.

China’s spectacular economic and military rise over the past 40 years is among the most significant geopolitical events of recent history, alongside the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union that ended the Cold War.