Investment Blog

Chinese acquirers made little to no value in 60% of their outbound investments over the past decade, according to a recent report by McKinsey China. Further, as a response to the resource insecurity China faced from 1998 to 2008, with resource import prices increasing by 18%… Read More »McKinsey Releases Report on Chinese Cross-Border M&A Deals, Resource Deals Suffered

According to reporting by the Globe and Mail, the purchase of ITF Technologies, a Montreal-based fibre-laser company, by Hong Kong-based O-Net was approved on March 17. A China Electronics Corp. subsidiary holds over 25% of O-Net’s shares, which is significant due to China Electronics’ Chinese… Read More »Federal Approval for Chinese Takeover Deal of Technology Firm

Amid significant shifts within the Canada-China relationship, and international relationships more generally, several positions in the cabinet of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have been changed. Canada’s new ambassador to China will be John McCallum, formerly Canadian Immigration minister, with his old position now filled by… Read More »Freeland Leads Foreign Affairs, McCallum Accepts China Assignment

Since December 2016, American President-elect Donald Trump has been announcing nominations and appointments for his cabinet and federal trade and business positions, a group with a variety of opinions – some positive, some very negative – on China, and China-US economic, business, and trade relations… Read More »Trump’s Team Has Mixed Views on Economy, Business, and Trade

A US$50,000 (C$67,000) annual cap on purchases of foreign currencies by Chinese investors will remain for 2017, even as China announced new currency oversight and rule changes in an attempt to back the yuan and slow capital outflows, according to media reports. China has been working… Read More »China Starts New Currency Exchange Scrutiny, Backs Currency, Tries to Slow Outflows

According to media reports, China’s richest man is warning that “should things be handled poorly” by the Trump administration, 20,000 American jobs and US$10 billion (C$13 billion) in investments could be lost. Speaking from Beijing, Wang Jianlin, the owner of American-based movie theater chain AMC Entertainment,… Read More »China’s Wang Jianlin Warns Trump That 20,000 US Jobs Are at Risk

At the 21st Regular Meeting between the Chinese Premier and Russian Prime Minister, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed over 20 cooperation documents covering a range of topics, including investment. Much of the discussion had to do with Russia’s Far… Read More »Russia’s Far East Boasts Potential for Cooperation with China

According to a press release, ChineseInvestors.com, a Chinese-language financial information website for investors in China and North America, intends to launch a show on the cannabis sector’s opportunities for investment. With the anticipated growth of a legal market for cannabis – stemming from new legislation in… Read More »Chinese-Language Financial Website to Launch First Ever Cannabis Investment Show

A recent report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies calls into question some of the benefits of China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR), with the authors expressing concerns while acknowledging the potential the OBOR could offer. Noting that OBOR “risks stirring domestic political competition, fueling… Read More »The Political Economy of One Belt, One Road

The China Institute at the University of Alberta’s China-Canada Investment Tracker has recorded no completed investments by Chinese state-owned investors into the Canadian energy industry during the first nine months of 2016, a sharp decline in state-owned investment from years past which has been counteracted… Read More »Private Investors Sole Sources of New Chinese Investment into Canadian Energy during Q1-Q3 2016