Over the past decade the foundation has bought new businesses and properties, established investment banks (together with investors from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) and financed big foreign trade deals.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Only in Ireland, where the economic model is based on openness to trade and foreign investment, is competitiveness a big part of the policy debate.

ECONOMIST: In place of devaluation, troubled members could try reform

Trade and investment offers a big loophole for Chinese and foreign firms.

ECONOMIST: Capital inflows to China