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...holdings of strategically important natural resources such as iron ore, copper, oil and gas - commodities China's leadership knows it will need much more of in the long run. In the past month, Chinese companies have bought assets abroad at an unprecedented pace. Aluminum Corp. of China (Chinalco), a major holding company focused on resources, has announced plans to invest $19.5 billion in Rio Tinto, one of the world's largest mining companies. If completed the deal would be the biggest foreign purchase any Chinese company has ever made. China Minmetals, another state-owned firm, said it would...
...days before the Brazilian deal, China secured what may be the most strategically significant agreement of all: Beijing agreed to lend $15 billion to cash-strapped Rosneft, Russia's oil major, and another $10 billion to Transneft, Russia's biggest pipeline company. The loans will be paid off not in cash, but in crude - 300,000 barrels a day from the huge east Siberian oil field. That's about 4% of China's current total demand for crude, secured on very favorable terms. Over the 20-year life of the deal, Beijing will effectively be paying about $20 per barrel...
...future - and always will be. Now, in the middle of the worst global downturn for decades, Brazil could finally be the country of the moment. According to a recent study by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD), Brazil may be the only one of 34 major economies that avoids recession in 2009. While the U.S. debates whether to nationalize its crippled banks, Brazil's remain comparatively sound. Oil companies worldwide are slashing investment, but Brazil's state-run Petrobras is going ahead with a four-year, $174 billion expansion plan. "Brazil," Lula boasted to TIME, "is riding...
...financial shambles has made Lula's campaign to challenge U.S. and European hegemony in global trade talks less quixotic - and enhanced Brazil's leadership role among developing nations. "Capitalism will be a different animal once the turbulence is over," Lula told TIME. "Developing countries will be responsible for a major percentage of world economic growth...
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