Replication Data for: China’s Rise - Threat or Opportunity? The Pacifying Effect of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment on American Threat Perceptions

What drives mass attitudes toward China? Scholars have written extensively on the
political consequences of China’s recent integration into the world economy. Yet we
lack causal empirical evidence on the relationship between China’s rising outward investment and perceptions toward China. I exploit foreign direct investment (FDI)’s agglomeration tendency to identify the effect of Chinese FDI on American views of China as a threat. I show that the announcement of Chinese greenfield FDI projects lessens concerns about China due to economic sociotropic considerations: Chinese greenfield FDI is believed to generate economic benefits broadcast to the public by the local news media. By contrast, Chinese takeovers of American companies, which do not stimulate the labor market, are not associated with a decline in threat perceptions. Findings are robust to controls for other political and economic conditions such as trade shocks from China and are mediated by respondents’ attachment to national identity.

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该数据集为研究中国对外直接投资（FDI）对美国民众对华威胁感知影响的复现数据，属于社会科学领域。研究发现，中国绿地FDI项目通过当地媒体报道的经济效益降低美国民众对中国的威胁感知，而中国收购美国公司则无此效应；数据包括代码、文本和表格文件，支持研究结果的验证与复现。