Политические факторы исходящих прямых иностранных инвестиций из Китая (1991-2017)Political Factors of Chinese Outbound Foreign Direct Investment (1991-2017)

This study offers a glimpse of “how China achieves the objectives of its foreign policy and other national strategies via the means of OFDI”. The research centers on political factors of Chinese Outbound Foreign Direct Investment (1991—2017). Even though an overwhelming proportion of research argue that there must be “political-sided considerations” for the internationalization of Chinese MNEs because the Chinese government gave them many supports, however, few scholars have made attempts to find out what exactly are these factors. This research aims to fill this gap by providing the author’s own version of these political-sided considerations behind Chinese OFDI and examine the role of “political factors” and “state-policies” in the investment strategies of Chinese MNEs. The author appropriately employed well-designed research methods to address the research question and major findings in this research proved that “political factors”/(political-sided considerations) and “state-policies” are crucial for the investment strategies of Chinese MNEs. The contribution of this this research are twofolds: first, this research offers a better understanding on China’s foreign policy and other national strategies and indicates new policy-related-sources and directions for future studies; second, this research contributes to the discussion on the interdependent relations between Chinese MNEs and sovereign states and therefore enriches theories of International Political Economy (IPE) by drawing from the experience of Chinese MNEs.