Free trade and lax capital controls were supposed to increase foreign investment in the US economy. However, allowing so much production to move overseas has resulted in massive efficiencies of scale in China, which makes investment in the US relatively unprofitable, despite the restrictions and requirements in China.
> While China attracted more new inflows last year, the total stock of foreign investment in the U.S. remains much larger [...]<p>Where can we see the numbers of total stock of foreign investment by country of origin and country of "reception"?