I have to say this is not a new problem, but it is significant, and apparently it's not a problem that's going away any time soon. My trade lawyer friends call it “jurisdiction shopping”, and most large corporations have a sufficiently complex corporate structure to allow them to do this. They can look for whichever combination of jurisdictions actually suits their interests, whether it's for the purposes of taxation or for the purposes of investment and of suing a government under the investor-state provisions.
Pacific Rim is the current example. There's another American company that's using the same--