There are some interesting video reports posted to Americas Quarterly discussing the mining industry in Peru, with a special focus on China.

Which country offers the most attractive model for development for a rising country – the United States or China? The answer used to be easy, but not any longer.

One doesn’t often associate the term “corporate social responsibility” with Chinese state-owned businesses, but it would be a mistake to assume that an unguided or less regulated set of standard operating procedures would necessarily produce a competitive advantage.  In a number of African nations, local communities are beginning to experience a backlash against their new [...]

Some important information from Mining Weekly on the uptick in acquisitions being made by China in shareholdings of foreign mining firms, including a special interest in precious metals: Strategic Capital & Intelligence Group (SCIG) CEO Jack Slibar expected the pace of Chinese investment into foreign mining firms to pick up significantly over the next two [...]

According to a recent piece published in the Financial Times, oil production in Angola has struggled to keep up pace, dropping to 1.65 million barrels per day, down from 1.85m b/d in 2010.  Although the African nation makes up only 2% of global oil production, back in 2008 Angola became the largest supplier of crude [...]

There’s no shortage of mutual historic distrust between the Russian and Chinese governments. Is that changing?

A United Nations human rights agency has demanded that the Chinese government immediately release a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer who has been detained for nearly a year, according to a statement released on Monday by an advocacy group. The lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, had said he was tortured during previous rounds of detention. The New York [...]

The long-standing and ongoing boom in commodity prices has given natural resources investors much to cheer about. It’s also revived a leviathan once thought tamed: resource nationalism or “indigenization”. Following a benign period of global deregulation, liberalization and privatization – the “Washington Consensus” of the post-Cold War era – Tim Woods reports that natural resources [...]

This year, China overtook the United States to become Brazil’s largest investor. In the first six months of 2010, FDI flows reached an estimated $10 billion, up from literally $83 million in the same period last year. The surge to many is hardly surprising given that China became Brazil’s largest trade partner in 2008. But [...]

Two of the world’s biggest operators – Vodafone and China Mobile – announced their financial separation on Wednesday, marking the start of Vodafone’s abandonment of its minority investments. UK-based Vodafone announced the sale of its entire 3.2 per cent interest in China Mobile, for a cash consideration of around £4.3bn before tax and other costs. [...]