{"id":145052,"date":"2026-01-28T01:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145052"},"modified":"2026-01-28T01:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:30:08","slug":"chinas-slowing-overseas-investment-reflects-caution-not-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145052","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s slowing overseas investment reflects caution, not retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s latest outbound investment numbers look underwhelming at first glance. At the commerce ministry\u2019s recently concluded national conference on outbound investment and foreign aid, officials revealed that outward direct investment grew by just 1.3 per cent in 2025, a sharp slowdown from the double-digit pace seen in 2024 and 2023. On paper, it appeared to confirm a cooling of China\u2019s overseas expansion.<br \/>\nThat conclusion misses what is actually changing. The more important story is not the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3341332\/chinas-slowing-overseas-investment-reflects-caution-not-retreat?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s latest outbound investment numbers look underwhelming at first glance. At the commerce ministry\u2019s recently concluded national conference on outbound investment and foreign aid,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145052"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}