- Chine: According to statistics published by the agency Chine nouvelle, foreign investment in China continued to drop in 1999, falling 11.4% from the previous year to USD 40.393 billion. Promised investments have also declined, totalling only USD 41.238 billion last year, down 21.3% from 1998. Chinese analysts explain that the decline is due to the repercussions of the Asian financial crisis and the rapid development of investment in the developed world. Foreign investments had already...