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11.28.18
Beijing’s Long Struggle to Control Xinjiang’s Mineral Wealth
The Silk Road Economic Belt—the overland component of Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—promises to bind China to Central Asia and beyond through a new infrastructural network. Connecting through China’s far western Xinjiang...
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10.11.18
Reform or Ruin: Chinese Cities on the Edge
China’s rapid industrialization has both led to, and been driven by, resource cultivation and extraction of breathtaking scope. But what happens when the resources run out?For many Chinese cities, local natural resources are a wellspring of jobs,...
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06.08.16China Is Planning A Massive Sea Lab 10,000 Feet Underwater
Bloomberg
Plans for deep-sea platform—used for mineral hunting and likely military purposes—have been accelerated....
The China Africa Project
01.19.16
Africa Feels the Chill of China’s Cooling Economy
It hasn’t even been a month since Chinese president Xi Jinping was in South Africa for the triennial Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) confab where he unveiled a massive $60 billion financial package. Oh how those were innocent, halcyon days...
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07.29.13Africa Wants Jobs From China
Fin24
"The romanticised relationship surrounding China's investment in Africa has passed," said Alex Vines. "The main pressure on governments in Africa is to provide jobs. Having the Chinese take those jobs doesn't help...
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07.13.12Inner Mongolia: Mining the Grasslands
Economist
LOCAL legend has it that the beauty of the grasslands in Xilin Gol, a prefecture in eastern Inner Mongolia, so captivated the 13th-century warrior Genghis Khan that he planned to settle down there once his battles were over. He might be less...