Foxconn and China

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In chronological order.

(1) China Said to Be Concerned About Foxconn's US Intentions. Bloomberg News, Jan 15, 2017 (updated on Jan 17).
http://www.bloombergquint.com/te ... -s-investment-plans

(2) Tim Culpan, Foxconn's Well-Thumbed Playbook. Bloomberg Gadfly, Jan 17, 2017
https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly ... ll-thumbed-playbook
("Foxconn has 76 percent of its non-current assets in China, 280-times the amount it has in the US")

Note:
(a) Regarding "well-thumbed playbook."  

Eva Dou, Wall Street Journal, Dec 30, 2016
www.wsj.com/articles/foxconn-dee ... -factory-1483100274
(Terry Gou announced plans to build  to build an $8.8 billion advanced LCD factory in Guangzhou, with Sharp technology: "Foxconn’s founder has in the past played governments off each other as he sought better investment terms, holding talks with different countries or municipalities but only investing in the end in one")
(b) These are accounting terms.
(i) definitions of
(A) non-current assets
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/noncurrent-assets.asp
and
(B) current assets
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/currentassets.asp
(ii) Which are called (A) fixed and (B) liquid assets, respectively, in Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_asset
(which does give an alternate name: "a fixed/non-current asset")