Anyone heard of foreign investors complaining about unfair practices and bad treatment by China? Anyone heard of foreign investors being fined by ludicrous laws, backed dated laws, forced to change contractual terms along the way? China as a nation has carefully cultivated an image of respecting rules of law and contractual agreements, even Unequal Treaties. China could have taken back Hong Kong and Macau long before the expiry of the terms of the Unequal Treaties. China stayed the course and allowed the Treaties to run their full course before taking back these colonial occupied territories. Since the opening up of China, many investors have happily entered and exited China without facing undue pressure or unfair legal entanglements. And despite all the cries by the American and European imperialists, the private sectors from these countries are forming a beeline to invest in China. Even Japan, China's enemy number one, is thickly invested in China despite all the hostilities and enmities.
China is still the number one choice destination for many investors from America and the West for obvious reasons. Safe, predictable, reliable and profitable. Whatever political nonsense, derisking, decoupling, the big corporations are staying put in China, continue to want to invest in China. They have found value in China and have never been cheated in China. This is the fundamental difference that makes a big difference in FDI, making China a happy and safe place for foreign investors.
Compare to what China is doing and treating the foreign investors, the horror stories are plentiful for investors putting their money in third world countries. Even Chinese investments are victims to silly politicians that think robbing and raping foreign investors are their birthright. The standard playbook, after all the agreements are agreed and signed, the third world low thinking leaders would want more, would want to change the terms, would want to cut prices. And some came out with more devious ways, invoked archaic laws, enact new laws and apply retrospectively, to fine the investors in the millions or billions. Oops, the so called first world leaders, the white men, are no exceptions. All the evidence are there, especially among the Mickey Mouse white men countries. The number culprits are the world's number one terrorist state, the USA.
To many third world politicians, foreign investors are the fat goats coming in to be slaughtered at will and to be sent fleeing with only their pants. They cannot appreciate the capital foreign investors brought in, the technology, knowhow, professional skills, the supply chains, the logistic networks, the jobs they created, the contribution to supporting businesses and their GDP. All this does not matter to the third world tiny brain politicians. All they want is daylight robbery on home ground. Money invested and sunk, cannot be extracted or if extracted, will be at great losses. This is the playbook of low thinking, low education and low IQ third world political leaders. They only know of short term personal interests, not the long term benefits of the country and people.
Why would countries put their good money in sneaky third world countries, called investments, only to be robbed and sent to the cleaners? Many American and western investors took China's safe and rules based system for granted, enjoying the good returns, but not wanting to show their appreciation of the good times they have/had in China.
Third world countries that think short term, to rob and rape their investors, must know that this cannot last and the investors would get wiser. Cheat me once, cheat me twice, but not thrice. China is the role model for foreign investments. This is the model for success and long term investments.
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