Insatiable Beijing scours the world for power and profit – Jane Macartney

From The Times:

THE Chinese Foreign Minister embarked yesterday on his first tour of a year in which he will rack up tens of thousands of air miles in pursuit of increasingly scarce natural resources to fuel the world’s fastest growing large economy.

Over the next ten days, Li Zhaoxing will regale the leaders of six African nations with his wit, humour and even perhaps his poetry as he seeks to consolidate relations in a continent where China’s interests have become crucial to its economic might.

See also “‘Find a couple of spare planets or face global oil war‘” from The Times.

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