2023年5月18日
Mark O’Neill
EJ Insight
Does China want foreign investment?
On March 30, at the Boao Forum, Chinese Premier Li Qiang told foreign business leaders that China had always attached great importance to attracting and utilising foreign investment.
Since then, security agents have conducted multiple raids on the China offices of three large U.S. consultancies that provide essential market research and due diligence to the foreign investors who are the main lobbyists for Beijing in the Western world.
In April, Beijing broadened its Counter-Espionage Law from covering state secrets and intelligence to any “documents, data, material or items related to national security and interests,” without defining the details. ...
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