Linked here is table of Chinese companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and NYSE American, the three largest U.S. exchanges. As of January 9, 2023, there were 252 Chinese companies listed on these U.S. exchanges with a total market capitalization of $1.03 trillion.
Indeed, during the past four decades, Chinese companies and investors have bought up land in the U.S. as well as purchased major food companies like Smithfield Foods, the United States' largest pork processor. Corporations own the majority of that land.
The Smithfield feed processing mill producing food for nearby hog-raising farms in Milford, Utah. In 2021, a Chinese company bought land near an Air Force base in Grand Forks, N.D., sending lawmakers into a frenzy.
Investors from Russia and Iran own even less land, totaling 73 acres and 4,324 acres respectively. The countries owning the largest shares of US farmland are actually Canada, the Netherlands, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
In total, other territories hold about $7.4 trillion in U.S. debt. Japan owns the most at $1.1 trillion, followed by China, with $859 billion, and the United Kingdom at $668 billion.
The golden arches will be controlled by a new franchisee in China going forward. While McDonald's is retaining a 20% interest in the new company, 52% will be owned by China's largest conglomerate, CITIC, and 28% by asset manager Carlyle Group. The deal is valued at nearly $2.1 billion.
In 2004 Joyo.com was acquired by the American multinational technology company Amazon.com Inc. The company was rebranded and renamed in October 2011 to Amazon China.
Companies import goods from China in part because their lower cost allows higher retail markups. That means more of what consumers spend goes to those companies and, indirectly, their workers. Imported goods and services constitute a smaller share of the U.S. consumer market than you might think.
Do shareholders know that The Walt Disney Company is engaged in a joint venture with the Chinese Communist Party that allows for the operation of the Shanghai Disney Resort? And it's not an equal split, by the way. Instead, the CCP has 57% ownership while Disney holds only 43% ownership.
Despite that increase, it's still only 0.88 percent of the 40 million acres owned by foreign countries at the end of 2021. Canada accounts for the most foreign-owned land in the U.S. at 31 percent, followed by the Netherlands at 12 percent.
The Shanghai Gigafactory is Tesla's biggest car manufacturing plant outside the United States. In 2022, the company delivered 1.31 million vehicles globally, more than half of which were from Shanghai, according to its financial results.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —When General Electric Co. agreed to sell its appliance unit to a Chinese manufacturer in 2016, the future wasn't clear for the business, its workers or the tens of millions of U.S. households owning GE GE 0.42%increase; green up pointing triangle appliances.
China owns roughly 384,000 acres of U.S. agricultural land, according to a 2021 report from the Department of Agriculture.
Fact: TikTok's parent company ByteDance Ltd. was founded by Chinese entrepreneurs, but today, roughly sixty percent of the company is beneficially owned by global institutional investors such as Carlyle Group, General Atlantic, and Susquehanna International Group.
While Alibaba dominates ecommerce and cloud computing services in China, Amazon dominates those industries in most other growing markets around the world.
Despite some mysterious rumors circulating online, Walmart is not owned by a Chinese company. Of course, it's very possible and likely that some of Walmart's individual shareholders are from China, but this does not make Walmart a Chinese company. Walmart is a US-owned company by a large margin.
While Google continues its operations in China, its capacity is limited. Google is strong in the rest of the world.
At the end of 2021, of the 98 countries for whom data was available, Pakistan ($27.4 billion of external debt to China), Angola (22.0 billion), Ethiopia (7.4 billion), Kenya (7.4 billion) and Sri Lanka (7.2 billion) held the biggest debts to China.
Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) is the major brand by Yum China (百胜中国), China's leading restaurant company that spun off from the American Yum! Brands in 2016. Yum China has the exclusive right to operate KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell in China, and also owns the Little Sleep hotpot concept.
For the past 20 years, Japan and China have been the top two foreign countries with US Treasuries. According to usafacts.org, as of January 2023, Japan owned $1.1 trillion in US Treasuries, making it the largest foreign holder of the national debt.
The United States has the world's highest national debt at $31.4 trillion. Global debt currently stands at $305 trillion, $45 trillion higher than before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Institute of International Finance (IIF) – a global association of the financial industry.
China and Japan are the largest foreign investors in American government debt. Together they own $2 trillion — more than a quarter — of the $7.6 trillion in US Treasury securities held by foreign countries.