Fascinating chart via Stratfor:
click for ginormous graphic
Category: Commodities, Digital Media, Gold & Precious Metals
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What about Land Grab?
Studying the Desert Fox will be on the rise shortly.
China has been very serious about expanding its global commodities empire this past decade — it has many mouths to feed to say nothing of the geopolitical leverage and wealth control of commodities offers — but Africa limns sociocultural problems with Chinese management style, some of which are deadly serious; e.g., Zambian miners kill Chinese manager during pay protest.
And most amazingly, they’re doing it the capitalist way.
Of course, knowing what I know after doing business in China for 15+ years, I’m sure there’s a heavy dose of corruption involved.
A very smart strategic move by China to secure resources in an area largely ignored by the West.
What has Rommel have to do with this?
This can’t be happening. Kissinger says the Chinese have no interest in controlling anything beyond their borders.
Zambian miners kill Chinese manager during pay protest
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19135435
Rommel’s lesson as the lessons of the summer 1942 campaigns in Russia are logistics and distances.
Hedging their bets in the US.
odd that it doesn’t include ‘corporate farming’
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