The Economist publica hoy un reportaje especial sobre la creciente sed de recursos de China, y como esa sed está creando una nuevo colonialismo global. Pregunta si la izquierda - que tanto le gusta criticar el imperialismo de Estados Unidos - en algún momento criticará al creciente colonialismo del nuevo imperio chino. No por nada el comercio de China con la dictadura de Sudán levanta cejas ya que ayuda al genocidio en Darfur... Copio:
"THERE is no exaggerating China's hunger for commodities. The country accounts for about a fifth of the world's population, yet it gobbles up more than half of the world's pork, half of its cement, a third of its steel and over a quarter of its aluminium. It is spending 35 times as much on imports of soya beans and crude oil as it did in 1999, and 23 times as much importing copper—indeed, China has swallowed over four-fifths of the increase in the world's copper supply since 2000.What is more, China is getting ever hungrier. Although consumption of petrol is falling in America, the oil price is setting new records, because demand from China and other developing economies is still on the rise. The International Energy Agency expects China's imports of oil to triple by 2030. .."
"THERE is no exaggerating China's hunger for commodities. The country accounts for about a fifth of the world's population, yet it gobbles up more than half of the world's pork, half of its cement, a third of its steel and over a quarter of its aluminium. It is spending 35 times as much on imports of soya beans and crude oil as it did in 1999, and 23 times as much importing copper—indeed, China has swallowed over four-fifths of the increase in the world's copper supply since 2000.What is more, China is getting ever hungrier. Although consumption of petrol is falling in America, the oil price is setting new records, because demand from China and other developing economies is still on the rise. The International Energy Agency expects China's imports of oil to triple by 2030. .."
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De hecho el abasto de petróleo en todo el mundo está siendo seriamente afectado por la demanda china de petróleo, y eso generará presiones en todos los países productores paar que aumenten su producción; no sólo tendrá grandes efectos en los precios.
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