If foreign ownership buys it up, many jobs will also be lost, as well as many profits and products. ... A bracing wind is blowing through the open door: China follows the policies of its East Asian neighbours on foreign trade and investment. ... China will also receive a lot of foreign investment from countries, especially japan, which will hit poor parts of China. ... China is on its way. the West should prepare China's interests lay in foreign investment, trade and economic reform. ... If they continue to grow at the rate China grows, and keep improving their economy, and join the lik...

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Seapower was necessary to control foreign markets because a powerful merchant fleet would avoid the need to borrow ships of other nations and become dependent on the assistance of other nations as well. A power fleet could provide more prestige and military power to a nation. ... They prohibited foreign ships form entering Spanish colonial ports. ...

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Japan went to the peace conference at Versailles in 1919 as one of the great military and industrial powers of the world and received official recognition as one of the "Big Five" of the new international order. ... MITI worked closely with Japanese business interests, and was largely responsible for keeping the domestic market closed to most foreign companies (Japan 101). ... Polls in the United States have indicated that the Americans rank the Japanese economic threat higher than the Russian military threat. ...

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Pakistan's Economic inheritance Pakistan was denied of its equitable share in the financial and military assets by India in order to strangulate its fledgling economy. ... Foreign relations - the relations of a county with others is very important for trade. ... This not only encourages foreign investment but also maintain existing economic policies for long-term benefits. Constant upheavals dissuade not only foreign but also local investments and constantly changing economic policies destroys economic development. ... Such developing countries are in acute shortage of foreign excha...

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Despite some setbacks, it has made dramatic progress: privatizing 351 state enterprises, reducing inflation from 13,500% to 12%, and cutting the foreign debt in half. ... Nicaragua suffers from persistent trade and budget deficits and a high debt-service burden, leaving it highly dependent on foreign assistance--as much as 25% of GDP in 2001. ... Foreign private capital inflows topped $300 million in 1999 but, due to economic and political uncertainty, fell to less than $100 million in 2001. Rapid expansion of the tourist industry has made it the nation's third-largest source of foreign...

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