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The appetite of Chinese companies for overseas acquisitions is quickly moving well beyond natural resources.
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It will take some time for Chinese companies to raise their batting averages where acquisitions of large, publicly-traded overseas companies are concerned.
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What if Chinese state-owned companies run their acquisitions for politics, not profit?
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For this reason, the initial wave of overseas acquisitions by Chinese companies has been largely confined to asset intensive energy and natural resource companies.
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Making overseas acquisitions is difficult for even the most experienced companies, and Chinese companies are new at the game.
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Recent acquisitions for London-based Diageo have included ShuiJingFang, a maker of baijiu, a Chinese white spirit, as well as Mey Icki, in Turkey.
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Look for more acquisitions, in part by foreign banks eager to use Hong Kong as a launching platform for the Chinese market.
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