If I had to guess, American investments took over as #1 in FDI in 1992. Japan was still 4th in 1991. You can thank wall street, republican congress, and bill

If I had to guess, American investments took over as #1 in FDI in 1992. Japan was still 4th in 1991. You can thank wall street, republican congress, and bill clinton for that. https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/15/business/foreign-investors-pouring-into-china.html https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/15/business/foreign-investor... "Last year (1991), the United States dropped to fifth, with less than a 5 percent share of foreign investment in China, behind Hong Kong, Germany, Taiwan and Japan." then the article talks about massive US investments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_direct_investment_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_direct_investment_in_C... FDI spiked in 1992