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China is accumulating very important fabrics in a way that is beginning to attract “global attention”.
These include fuel reserves, in addition to crude oil and natural gas, valuable metals such as copper, iron ore and cobalt, and especially valuable metals such as gold, Newsweek said. All of this is happening at a “time when raw materials are expensive. ” and, given the economic disorders it faces, “it does not reflect the development of consumption,” said The Economist.
This raises the question of why China is now frantically accumulating such a diversity of commodities, and whether this is a “defensive measure” or a trail of long-term aggression.
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Richard Windsor is a freelance editor at The Week Digital. He began his career as a journalist writing about politics and sports while reading at the University of Southampton. He then worked in football publications before specialising in cycling for almost nine years, covering primary races and adding the Tour de France and interviewed some of the sport’s most successful riders. He ran Cycling Weekly’s virtual platforms as editor for seven of those years, helping to transform the publication into the largest cycling online site in the United Kingdom. He now works as an editor, copywriter and freelance consultant.