Measuring Chinese foreign investment

Find below a new report from the University of Sydney and KPMG on the how much and where Chinese investment flows into Australia are occurring. The study shows that China has made $US51 billion in actual cumulative investment compared with $US50.7 billion for the US and $US36.6 billion for Canada.

In 2012, Canada and the US overtook Australia with $US21.3 billion and $US14.7 billion compared with $US10.5 billion for Australia.

It’s full of groovy charts that nicely capture the flows. First, aggregates:

And sectors for 2012:

And states:

Full report available here.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.