80年代以来,国际资本流动中的一些新趋向和新现象表现得愈来愈明显,其中最引人注目的是以西欧和日本为基地的跨国公司和跨国银行蜂拥进入美国市场,加速对美国的资本渗透。在短短的几年里美国就取代西欧成为最大的资本输入国,而且随着财政赤字和国际收支逆差的迅速扩大,它已由世界最大的债权国沦为最大的债务国。与此同时,日本在经济上迅速崛起。这些情况表明,随着资本主义经济和政治的不平衡发展,主要资本主义国家之间的实力对比正在进一步朝着不利于美国的方向发展。投资的主要流向从西欧移向美国第二次世界大战后国际资本流动的重要特征之一,就是国际垄断资本的对外直接投资的主要地区已由战前的殖民地和附属国的经济落后地区迅速转向资本主义发达国家和地区。战后初期, Since the 1980s, some new trends and new phenomena in international capital flows have become more and more evident. The most notable of these are the multinationals and multinational banks based in Western Europe and Japan swarming into the U.S. market and accelerating the U.S. Capital infiltration. In just a few years the United States replaced Western Europe as the largest capital-importing country and became the largest debtor nation from the world’s largest creditor country with the rapid expansion of the fiscal deficit and the balance of payments. At the same time, Japan is rapidly rising economically. These facts show that with the unbalanced development of the capitalist economy and politics, the balance of power among the major capitalist countries is further moving in a direction unfavorable to the United States. One of the most important characteristics of the main flow of investment from Western Europe to the United States after World War II is that the major areas of outward direct investment in international monopoly capital have rapidly shifted from the economically underdeveloped areas of the pre-war colonies and dependent countries Capitalist developed countries and regions. Early after the war,