Over 80% of US firms feel less welcome in China – survey

BEIJING: More than 80 percent of American companies feel China is less welcoming to foreign businesses than in the past, a US business lobby group reported Wednesday, as trade tensions surge between the world’s top two economies.

Slowing growth, rising protectionism, and unfair policy treatment for non-Chinese firms have led a vast majority—81 percent—of respondents to the American Chamber of Commerce in China’s annual business climate survey to say they felt “less welcome” in the country last year.