"America is running a grand strategy without a…" — Lindsey Giggy (#c1394)

Card #c1394IR // #c1394SynthesisMilitary report

America is running a grand strategy without a geoeconomic leg — China and Germany use directed foreign direct investment as a statecraft weapon, while the United States treats economics as an almost apolitical field, which leaves it disadvantaged in today's geoeconomic competition.

— In our words · Source: Investing in the Future World Order: Geoeconomic Strategy and Foreign Direct Investment (Lindsey Giggy)

[Use when]

If a power tool isn't in your strategy, someone else's is in theirs — treat investment policy as strategy, not bookkeeping.

[Why it matters]

Investment flows are foreign policy now — the thesis's framework treats outbound/inbound FDI as a power instrument on par with trade and sanctions, which is the lens behind every CFIUS block and outbound-investment screen.