How China beats US as trade, investment partner for Indonesia


A train passes the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway project in Cipatat, West Bandung, West Java, on May 27, 2020. - Antara

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): Indonesia has gotten closer to China than the United States in goods trade and foreign direct investment in the past few decades, benefitting from the rapid development of the world’s second-largest economy.

Indonesia’s trade with China picked up following the East Asian giant's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001.

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