Opinion: Trump’s Investment Ban Might Not Hurt Much in the Long Run

Tianlei Huang is a research fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Nicholas R. Lardy is the Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

China’s integration into global financial markets is accelerating at a pace unseen before. In a PIIE Policy Brief, we analyze the reasons for the rapid increase of cross-border capital flows into China and conclude that the foreign financial investment in China is market driven.