This and the UAE action are what can be expected when we have a huge balance of payments problem. Those dollars have to come back here somehow to maximize value to the holders; so it's a decision for them between US Treasury Bonds, the Stock Market or Direct Investment.
UAE firm to run 6 U.S. ports(Nation tied to 9/11 hijackers could influence terminals)
Malkin: Stop the Port Sellout / Our Ports, Our Sovereignty (+UAE links to 9/11)
The NAFTA Corridors: Offshoring U.S. Transportation Jobs to Mexico
Pat Buchanan : America's Hollow Prosperity
On behalf of transnational business interests, George W. Bush is willfully conducting a Trade War against the peaceful prosperity of the American Middle Class.
"I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country."-- President Andrew Jackson - (1824)