The point, if I remember correctly (which is, granted, always a big "if"), I was making was that sending machinery to a new plant in China was no different from sending money to finance a new plant in China.  One way or another, the capital needed to begin production is moving to the new production site -- hence, in this sort of example, my contention that there is no point in drawing a distinction.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.