中国抨击美国“投资保护主义”

英国《金融时报》斯蒂芬妮•基希格斯纳(Stephanie Kirchgaessner)华盛顿报道
2008年6月11日 星期三
  

中国官员指责美国对外国政府控制的实体所进行的投资抱有“敌意”，在有关审核跨境交易的拟议法规中滑向“投资保护主义”。

中国证监会在一封致美国财政部(US Treasury)的信函中表示，拟议法规给美国外国投资委员会(Cfius)预留“过多的解释空间”和“过大的权限”。美国外国投资委员会是由美国财政部领导的一个跨机构专门小组。

拟议法规也遭到中国商务部的批评：“这一区别对待条款显然倾向于投资保护主义，带有将经济问题政治化的色彩，因此是在美投资正常途径上一块巨大的绊脚石。”

CHINA HITS OUT AT US ‘PROTECTIONISM'

  
By Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
  

Chinese officials have accused the US of harbouring “hostility” to investments by foreign government-controlled entities and of drifting towards “investment protectionism” in proposed regulations that set out how cross-border deals ought to be vetted.

The Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission said in a letter to the US Treasury that the proposed regulations left “too much room for interpretation” by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, or Cfius, an inter-agency panel chaired by the Treasury, and left the body with “excessive authority”.

The proposals were also criticised by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce. “This discriminating provision apparently tilts toward investment protectionism and is tinged with the colour of politicising economic issues. It therefore stands as a grave impediment for the normal course of investment in the US,” it said.