We explain that China is an ‘‘attractor'' of FDI because its FDI inflows increased steadily even though theworld FDI inflows have decreased considerably in recent years. It is indeed "strange" or "chaotic" since its rates of FDI return are below the world average and predictions of its...

We first examine Taiwan's position in the world economy. This is followed by discussions of Taiwan's role in the US economy, and its role in the Chinese economy, both as special state-to-state economic relations. We compare and contrast Taiwan with the countries with which the United States...