Communist China’s Pain Is America’s Gain

A surprising amount of the foreign investment capital flight out of China is flowing into the United States.

The U.S. flag flies over a container ship unloading its cargo from Asia, at the Port of Long Beach, Calif., on Aug. 1, 2019.

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by James Gorrie
August 18, 2025

The days of nearly unlimited foreign direct investment (FDI) money flowing into China from all parts of the world are over. That’s not an exaggeration.

By the end of 2024, the level of FDI into China had fallen an incredible 99 percent in just three years. It’s not the cause of China’s economic malaise, but a symptom of the Chinese Communist Party’s mismanagement of the economy, its widespread abuse of the Chinese people, and its gross mistreatment of its foreign investment partners, which has only ratcheted up this year.

As a result of the CCP’s destructive behavior, the “China Miracle” has become a deep mire of economic deception,…