May 26, 2004

The China Boom -- Robert Samuelson. "[China] is the world's biggest consumer of copper, tin, zinc, platinum, steel, and iron ore; second biggest of aluminum and lead; third largest of nickel. . . . It is now the world's second-largest oil consumer [after the United States], and accounted for 35 percent of the global rise in oil demand in 2003 .. ". MORE Robert Samuelson. Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack