China tech risks already factored in: investors

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Mr Belz said it was the role of the market to price in the risk and reward of investing in a country like China, with the risks of sensitive technologies already well known. “So I’m not sure what this [potential ban] really achieves on many levels on a practical side,” he said. Australia-China Relations Institute executive director James Laurenceson said the US investment ban was window dressing to address domestic political concerns. He said the ban was “pretty modest” overall, given it largely amounted to a notification scheme by a company to the US government after a deal had been...