Foreign direct investment into China, as measured by the balance of payments data, has collapsed. It is tempting to pin this on global fragmentation or a loss of confidence in China’s economic prospects. But the key driver appears to be more prosaic: the unusually-large interest rate differential between China and the rest of the world has led firms to remit their retained earnings out of the country.
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