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China is accumulating very important fabrics in a way that is beginning to attract “global attention”.
Among the fabrics are 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 this is happening at a “time when raw materials are expensive” and, given the economic disorders it is facing, “do not reflect the development of consumption,” The Economist stated.
This raises the question of why China is now frantically stockpiling 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 journalism career writing about politics and games while reading at the University of Southampton. He then worked in football publications before specializing in cycling for almost nine years, covering primary races including the Tour de France and interviewing some of the sport’s most productive cyclists. He led Cycling Weekly’s virtual platforms as editor for seven of those years, helping to build the publication into the UK’s largest cycling website. He now works as a freelance editor, publisher and consultant.