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And almost 60% of China's GDP are made by American companies.
This paper from 2007 explained a few common fallacies and misconceptions regarding to US-China economic relationship.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w13470.pdf?new_window=1
Page 2 of the essay states that "Fallacy Number 1. U.S. FDI in China is large". In 2007, the total foreign and partially foreign enterprise accounts for only 10% of the Chinese fixed asset investment. In fact, the number dropped much lower in the recent years due to global recession and increased investment from Chinese government (I believe it is currently about 4.5%) On top of this, US was never the biggest investor in China and US investment in China is also only a small part of the overall US investment in foreign countries.
It is quite an interesting article, helps to clear up some common misconceptions.