China overtakes US as Australia's largest foreign investor

China has for the first time overtaken the United States as Australia's largest source of foreign investment, according to official data, laying out Aus$27.7 billion (US$21.8 billion) in 2013-14 as real estate purchases more than doubled. The Asian economic giant's spending in Australia for the year ending June 30, 2014 far outstripped the Aus$17.5 billion from the United States -- which was the biggest investor for more than a decade -- and Canada's Aus$15.4 billion, the Foreign