A new report warns that a potential summit between Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump is unlikely to significantly revive Chinese investment in the United States. According to the Rhodium Group, Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) has sharply declined since its 2016 peak and has remained at low levels. This suggests that even a bilateral deal may not reverse the current trend in economic relations.

Chinese investment in the US is unlikely to recover meaningfully from its mid-2010s collapse even if President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump reach a bilateral deal when they meet in Beijing next month, according to a report released on Thursday. Rhodium Group, an American research firm that tracks China’s cross-border investment, said Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States had “fallen significantly from its 2016 peak, and remained at low levels for the past five....