Wait just a minute. Do you want a reduction in the trade deficit or not. Are you telling me that you don't know that when an American buys Chinese stock we get a reduction in our trade deficit? Please make up your mind, which is better --for us to buy and own more Chinese companies than they do of ours? Here I thought you loved the US but now you seem to be saying that you want the Chinese to own more of the US then we do of China? Do you actually want the US/Chinese trade deficit to continue to grow?
It's time to stop asking questions and just make a decision. Do I buy SNP or not? Yes or no?
Maybe it's quaint...but maybe you could do more to 'reduce the deficit' by putting your money into a U.S. concern which found and pumped more oil and natural gas than was previously available...lowering our U.S. imports. I.e., lowering our trade deficit DIRECTLY rather than with your highly speculative approach?