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China’s Global Spending Spree

Celia Hatton reveals the breathtaking scale of China’s western economic asset purchases.

China is on a giant global shopping spree, acquiring overseas assets like companies and intellectual property at an eye-popping rate - some four times what was previously thought. What’s more, brand new data, shared exclusively with the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, reveals that the greater share of its foreign purchases are now in the developed world. Observers in the United States, Europe and elsewhere are alarmed at the potential for Beijing to dominate key technologies and turbo charge its growing military might. In this documentary Celia Hatton investigates the sometimes murky ways in which Chinese investment can find its way into even the most sensitive industrial sectors. But she also discovers that shutting out Chinese influence is not as easy or in some cases even as desirable as many might assume.

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27 minutes

On radio

Thu 20 Nov 2025 02:32GMT

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