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Visualizing Every Overseas Chinese Investment Over $100 Million
The global reach of the world’s most populous country has grown exponentially over the last decade. China’s thirst for assets in metals, energy, agriculture, and other sectors is reflected in today’s post.
In the above data visualization, every attempted Chinese merger and acquisition (M&A) overseas over $100 million is sorted by country and industry. Showing over 1,250 attempted transactions (excluding bonds), this list includes both successful and failed attempts in order to help visualize the ebb and flow of Chinese investments up until mid-2014.
The largest successful transaction was in 2012, when state-owned
CNOOC bought Canadian oil and gas giant Nexen for $15.1 billion. With
the crash in energy prices, just years later the Chinese parent company
is looking at enormous writedowns exceeding $5 billion on its Nexen
assets.
Chinalco, the world’s second largest alumina miner, bid
for some of Rio Tinto’s assets in 2008 in what would be the second
largest M&A transaction on the list, but the deal eventually fell
through.
Chinese investments rose over 50% in the United States from 2012, hitting a high of over $14 billion in 2014.
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seems very very understated because the vast majority of major real estate investment is not corporate in canada, and a large percentage of small business investment in canada is done, legally, as personal. a lot of small business in china... small company that has 2-3 tire factories, 2 lumber mills, etc are buying up large lots of canadian condos... farmland... major amounts of canadian small company stock (e.g. 4% of a junior miner) but it's basically personal purchases, done through a personal account rather than as their small business back home.
also makes it a lot easier to get the money out of china and skirt the capital flight regulations in china (and then oversight and regulation by canadian banks too).
australia is probably similar but they have stronger regulation about that than canada.
africa could be too but i really have no effing clue... i dont know anyone actually investing in africa, it seems mostly all soe. most small to medium size business owners i know dont want anything to do with africa, it's mostly soe's for geo-political reasons i guess. but still, my point is i'm sure it's understated... execs are SOEs almost making personal purchases
Their billion plus slaves earned it, they can spend it the way they want imo.
They are not slaves .They are just faster and more efficient than robots.
USA! USA!
china is about as communist as we are capitalist
Orientals always buy the high.
Yes but whan most decisions are made to suit a handful of gangster families capital tends not to be well allocated.
14 billion ain't nothin. couple dozen rehypothecated student loans are worth that much.
These are grossly overestimated projects designed to put money in the pockets of Chinas crony capitalists. Like the US Exim bank.
And that is how the international bankers build up the opposing force.
Pakistan ( Energy? ) and Peru ( Metals ) are standout latest investments.Truth is they'll be plenty other investments undeclared.
Can't see UK/GB investment ( probably got nothing they want, had enough of those pesky +AAA financial WMD's )
Australia ( Iron Ore ) and Canada ( Energy ) biggest single Investments so Abbott and Harper (Dumber and Dumber) should shut the F..K UP. Property prices in those two countries have been greatly affected.
EXPECT to see greater Russian Investment for Years to come.
Silly, China doesn't care about write-downs of perceived value of oil reserves measured in debt dollars.
They're stacking.
This is history. China is struggling to wind down internal debts and muzzling their State Owned Corporations because bad debts are piling up in their Banks that are not private sector banks.
This has triggered collapse in hard commodites (cement, steel, etc) affecting all other nations exporting such commodities.
There is a an outflow of funds but minimally by State Owned giants. the outflow is for the protection of much ill gained funds by individuals under the current anti corruption clean-up. Any M&A deal by Chinese Companies are now suspect scams. (they are going to be as slick as the WS poisons).
Some bravadoes spin on Silk Road, etc. These are just MOUs; a nation that MOUs are toilet papers form bottom to top. You act only when they sink real monies down (their monies).
Good try promoting snake oils. Try harder as the masters of these concotions and spins (Goldman, etc) do not even pitch it. Do some homework and review the current pitches from GS, etc on China that are way off from this insulting piece. Insulting as in treating ZHers as dafts.
ENERGY BITCHEZ!
I am not sure if this is the greatest investment guide ever > avoid Finance, Real Estate and Bullshit-Tech Companies and invest in Energy (which is the only factor that matters), or if this is a visual guide to see where the Bubble will pop.
Either way: China buying up the world. Nicely done (the graphic).
Never undestood why China did not scoop up all those moribound US auto parts and auto manufacturers back when the financial crises emerged. They do not even want energy assets any more,at least not the North American ones.
It is a power and influence (from within) grab IMO.