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A changing China

6 Dec 2006

The Chinese have been hungry for things they have not had for as long as they have been aware of those things, not simply for the half century since the foundation of the People’s Republic but since the beginning of reform and modernization at the turn of the last century when they threw off the shackles of dynastic rule and foreign domination. [...] That is a lot of catch-up in a quarter century, and it has brought the aggregate size of the Chinese economy to the status of fourth largest in the world measured traditionally and second by purchasing power parity, but in fact it is just the beginning of the story. [...] By the middle of the 1990s the situation began to change radically, as the expansion of Chinese domestic supplies of most minerals and of oil and gas was overtaken by the growth in demand. [...] Even if the reasons for turning the Chinese away have been a mix of a lack of need for Chinese capital and a perception that the Chinese are difficult partners with which to come to definitive terms and have not been anti-Chinese, the reaction in China to these University of Alberta. [...] In the minerals sector, it is salient to keep in mind that Canadian mining firms are in the forefront of trying to pry open China’s investment rules as they relate to foreign ownership of high grade deposits of gold and to the security of ownership of mining rights to deposits discovered by foreign explorers irrespective of their size or strategic importance.
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Authors

Balloch, Howard

ISBN
1551959364
Pages
13
Published in
Canada

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