Keyword: foreign investment

US Ambassador: Downgrade Would be 'Setback to India's Hopes to Grow'

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Standard & Poor's possible downgrade of India's investment status "reflects some of the current problems India is having," U.S. Ambassador to India Nancy Powell said Friday at Asia Society Studios in New York. 

Ongoing US-China Talks Add to Interest in Report on Chinese Direct Investment

Cover of China's <em>Century Weekly</em> magazine for the week of May 17, 2011.
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Asia Society report attracts attention during the Strategic and Economic Dialogue between the United States and China.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Lauds Report on Chinese Investment, but has Harsh Words for China

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
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Speaking at the launch of an Asia Society paper entitled An American Door?, Gary Locke, nominated to be the next Ambassador to China, warned that China has been "narrowing its commercial environment" to U.S investors.