Saturday, February 25, 2012
Chinese Vision of the Mideast Emerges
Friday, February 24, 2012
West Africa Has Huge Gold Potential
Sunday, 26 February 2012
It appears that China has decided it is time to stake out its own position in the Middle East as a great power with its own significant and legitimate interests in the region, instead of trying to shoehorn itself into whatever diplomatic coalition the United States or Russia invokes to deal with the latest crisis.
Yes, China as "responsible stakeholder" appears ready to take the Middle Eastern stage.
The Chinese move is an ironic and predictable counter-point to America's "strategic pivot" into East Asia.
West Africa could be become one of the world's top five gold producing regions.
Joanne Taylor reports: "Numerous new gold-mining projects are being developed in West Africa, particularly in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Liberia and Sierra Leone, but none of them are big enough to threaten the top gold producer, China…."
Click here to read Taylor's article in Mining Weekly.
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