Good luck to those investors. China has no established tradition of respecting property rights. It can change the rules of the game as it sees fit politically.
The only way to make it workable is to have some critical trading relationship that makes the cost of seizing property/money unpalatable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...
and that's against their own citizens.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Reform_Movement_(China)
Landlords — had their land confiscated and they were subjected to mass killing by the CCP and former tenants, with the estimated death toll ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions.
It’s also politically very unpalatable to use it on businesses. Use it on a business and good luck getting re-elected as a prosecutor / police chief etc.
Is it used to suppress poor brown people? Sure. Is that a good thing? No. But it’s not really a barrier to investment.
China's been telegraphing it will attack Taiwan pretty soon. When that happens, good luck not having your investments either destroyed or nationalized.
No they aren't.