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Title: China is buying up American companies fast, and it's freaking people out
Source: Business Insider
URL Source: [None]
Published: Feb 22, 2016
Author: Portia Crowe
Post Date: 2016-02-22 11:23:49 by U don't know me
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Views: 1670
Comments: 11

China is buying up American companies fast, and it's freaking people out

Here's a story you'll be hearing about a lot this year.

Chinese companies have been buying up foreign businesses — including American ones — at a record rate, and it's freaking out lawmakers.

There is General Electric's sale of its appliance business to Qingdao-based Haier, Zoomlion's bid for the heavy-lifting-equipment maker Terex Corporation, and ChemChina's record-breaking deal for the Swiss seeds and pesticides group Syngenta, valued at $48 billion.

Most recently, a unit of the Chinese conglomerate HNA Group on Wednesday said it would buy the technology distributor Ingram Micro for $6 billion.

And the most contentious deal so far might be the Chinese-led investor group Chongqing Casin Enterprise's bid for the Chicago Stock Exchange. A Chinese deal spree

To date, there have been 102 Chinese outbound mergers-and-acquisitions deals announced this year, amounting to $81.6 billion in value, according to Dealogic. That's up from 72 deals worth $11 billion in the same period last year.

And they're not expected to let up anytime soon. Slow economic growth in China and cheap prices abroad due to the stock market's recent sell-off suggest the opposite.

"With the slowdown of the economy, Chinese corporates are increasingly looking to inorganic avenues to supplement their growth," Vikas Seth, head of emerging markets in the investment-banking and capital-markets department at Credit Suisse, told Business Insider earlier this month.

China's economic growth in 2015 was its slowest in 25 years.

The law firm O'Melveny & Myers recently surveyed their mainly China-based clients and found that the economic growth potential in the US was the main factor making it an attractive investment destination.

Nearly half of respondents agreed that the US was the most attractive market for investment, but 47% felt that US laws and regulations were a major barrier.

They'd be right about that. A major barrier

Forty-five members of Congress this week signed a letter to the Treasury Department's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, urging it to conduct a "full and rigorous investigation" of the Chicago Stock Exchange acquisition.

"This proposed acquisition would be the first time a Chinese-owned, possibly state-influenced, firm maintained direct access into the $22 trillion US equity marketplace," the letter reads.

"While it is unclear the level of influence the state holds over CCEG, the firm is involved in a number of important Chinese sectors that would likely require close ties to the state."

CFIUS is meant to vet deals for any national-security issues. It recently prevented the $3.3 billion sale of Philips' lighting business to a group of buyers in Asia, but its reasons for blocking that deal weren't disclosed.

"I would be very surprised if CFIUS did not have an interest in taking a look at this deal," said Anne Salladin of law firm Stroock & Stroock, referring to the Chicago Stock Exchange deal.

Also this week, California-based Fairchild Semiconductor refused an offer from the state-backed China Resources and Hua Capital, the Financial Times reported.

They bid $2.6 billion for the company, but Fairchild turned it down, citing concerns about US regulators, and accepted a lower bid from a US-based rival.

While not all the companies doing the buying are state-owned enterprises, they do need to have the full backing of the Chinese government in order to close foreign deals. That's because they need approval in order to get enough foreign exchange to pay for the acquisitions, something the government monitors closely.

Given the recent volume of deals, though, it would appear that the Chinese government is supportive of the foreign-buying spree. That may be exactly what has folks so worried.

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#1. To: U don't know me (#0)

"China is buying up American companies fast, and it's freaking people out"

Yep. And 30 years ago Japan was buying up American companies and it freaked people out. They called it an "economic Pearl Harbor".

And during the 70's people were freaking out over global cooling -- "The Coming Ice Age".

And during the 60's people were worried about overpopulation -- "The Population Bomb".

Give me a f**king break.

misterwhite  posted on  2016-02-22   11:39:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: U don't know me (#0)

This is the point where the Chinese Communists SHOULD follow their ideology and, instead of seeking financial "alpha" in the wider world, reinvest all of that money into China, to better the overall conditions of Chinese people.

Take those trillions and, instead of spending them on a stupendous new fleet...to do what? launch a war?, or just swing around a big dick? ... and instead of spending them to buy up companies willy-nilly...actually PRACTICE their civil Communist religion.

If I were the ChiCom President, sitting at the top of things, I'd re-divert all of that external expenditure into a whole series of domestic programs:

(1) Pollution control and reduction. China is filthy. The air is filthy. Rivers run with poisons. This is bad for the people. So stop building aircraft carriers and buying foreign furniture manufacturers, and pour billions into pollution control and pollution reduction. That would dramatically increase the quality and length of life of Chinese people, and generally make the place better to live for everybody. It would also employ a lot of people, and produce technology that would be useful everywhere in the world, which the Chinese could build and export.

(2) Alternative energy sources. Nuclearize the country. Pour money into fusion, solar. We are on the cusp of many things, and the Chinese have the free capital and technically savvy population to be able to invent things and apply them to make China better, then build them and sell them to the world also. Once again, makes life better and employs Chinese.

(3) Investigate and improve desalination. The Chinese rivers and rains fertilize the plains, but the inland half of the country is dry and difficult. Establish the plants on the seacoast, pump the water inland, and turn the desert green.

(4) Universalize the processing and composting of human waste as fertilizer. There is nowhere that has a greater supply of human waste than China.

Those four things will improve health (and reduce health costs), and make China self-sufficient in energy and in food and water - indeed, a net exporter of both, and an exporter of the technology for all three.

THAT is what a REAL Communist workers' paradise ought to be doing: taking billions to turn China into paradise.

Instead, taking billions to make alpha for a few investors, and leaving a filthy smoking hole, is betraying the Chinese people, who are all supposed to collectively benefit from the rising wealth of the country. At least if the place is REALLY Communist.

As far as defense goes, nobody on earth is going to invade China. The US never will. Nor the Russians. Who does that leave? North Korea? Nepal? Please. China is secure by virtue of the fact that it is China. The Chinese are going out looking for trouble. It's stupid. They have a vast country that is only partly developed, and filthy. If they reinvested in making China better, the place would be the wonder of the world.

Vicomte13  posted on  2016-02-22   11:39:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: U don't know me (#0)

China is buying up American companies fast, and it's freaking people out

And maybe when Americans begin to discover that the earning from these companies is are subtracted from the pool of American economic circulation they will freak back in again.

rlk  posted on  2016-02-22   12:12:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: U don't know me (#0)

This could be good for America! Some of our fast food Chinese food stands need upgrading.

buckeroo  posted on  2016-02-22   13:30:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: buckeroo (#4)

We need a decent laundry joint around here with cheap prices.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2016-02-22   14:06:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Fred Mertz (#5)

We need a decent laundry joint around here with cheap prices.

Agreed. These cheap, illegal alien Mexicans and Syrians over starch our clothes and often leave iron board impressions in our shirts and pants.

buckeroo  posted on  2016-02-22   15:12:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: U don't know me (#0)

China is buying up American companies fast,

and hiring American workers .

"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools." Plato

tomder55  posted on  2016-02-22   19:11:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: misterwhite (#1)

And during the 60's people were worried about overpopulation --
"The Population Bomb".

Give me a f**king break.

Yeah - weren't we supposed to all starve to death
back in the 80s?

Well I just finished a turkey & cheddar on sourdough.
Not gluttonous - but far from starving.

(The crusty sourdough - not the mushy stuff that's like white bread...)

Chuck_Wagon  posted on  2016-02-22   21:14:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Chuck_Wagon (#8)

Yeah - weren't we supposed to all starve to death back in the 80s?

Surprisingly enough some people did. The population bomb did go off and the consequences have yet to be felt. Opportunity knocked and money rose to the occasion and more food was produced at the expense of the rape of the oceans and the rape of the land in particular the rain forest. That you can eat factory produced turkey and factory produced cheese and bread is part of that.

The resources of the Earth are vast and the imagination of humans small but both are finite

paraclete  posted on  2016-02-23   20:08:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: paraclete (#9)

More chickens were produced than were sustainable I suppose.

Chuck_Wagon  posted on  2016-02-26   6:18:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Chuck_Wagon (#10)

you can eat chicken force grown with hormones if you like

paraclete  posted on  2016-02-26   9:28:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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