China Buys U.S. Businesses at Record Pace; What are the Implications? Will Alarm Bells Ring?

``Some might be alarmed by China buying US businesses. Actually this is a good thing, and the faster things speed up, the better off the US and China will both be. Direct investment will provide much-needed jobs in the US and it will alleviate China's dependence on an unsustainable model of fixed investment.'' -- Basically we made either this kind of sell-off or war inevitable a long ago by embarking down the road of China owning more and more of our debt....