I just tried to explain this chart to a friend, and came to realize that the graph shows annual investment, not cumulative indebtedness (as I had preeviously thought). To get the total current debt you would have to integrate the area under each layer of the chart. I think the result would be equally impressive, but would have preferred to see that rather than this.
2 Responses to Chinese Investment
Steven Zalesch
February 15th, 2012 at 09:44
I just tried to explain this chart to a friend, and came to realize that the graph shows annual investment, not cumulative indebtedness (as I had preeviously thought). To get the total current debt you would have to integrate the area under each layer of the chart. I think the result would be equally impressive, but would have preferred to see that rather than this.
Stanislav
February 15th, 2012 at 13:41
2Steven: http://heritage.org/research/projects/china-global-investment-tracker-interactive-map