How will China react to lost investments?

[davidbfpo]

A couple of posts have appeared in a thread on the war in Afghanistan, but raise questions and issues that IMHO need their own thread.

There is to my knowledge little history of China losing overseas investments, partly as it has exported people, not capital. Other nations have considerable history of losing investments, notably post-1945 either in giving up colonies or nationalisation of assets and quite a few small wars have ensued.