China Speakers Bureau: Watching China's foreign investments

Janet Carmosky by Fantake via Flickr

In Forbes Janet Carmosky tries to make sense out of the massive flow of Chinese investments entering the global economy. It looks much like an iceberg, she says:

In two ways, watching China’s money move is a bit like looking at an iceberg. First, because the money does tend to group itself into giant piles, which break off and float away--to Africa, Southeast Asia, Brazil, the gas-rich, geostrategic '-stans--and, very occasionally, to the northern hemisphere. Second, because everything that really happens is more or less invisible...